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  • Lot 15345

    Beschreibung:
    Rare 1796 Plea for a Uniform CurrencyNew-York, Printed for the Author, by Mott & Lyon, In the 21st Year of American Independence (1796). 12mo, self-covered and stitched, as issued. 24 pages. The author highlights the fact that although a uniform coinage had been established in the new Republic, there were five different currency systems at work in the various states, and this posed an impediment to trade. Rare. Evans 28966. Fore-edge a bit ragged; some browning and discoloration. Good to very good. Estimate $500. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15345 (realized $840). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11030

  • Lot 15344

    Beschreibung:
    Miller & Ryder's State Coinage Of New England, with Annotations by BoydNew York: ANS, 1920. 4to, original printed card covers. (4), 76 pages; 7 plates of coins. Annotated throughout, in what appears to be F.C.C. Boyd's handwriting. Mention is made of pieces in his collection and the annotations are thorough. Eric P. Newman did not tend to write in books; Boyd did, and is known to have annotated at least one other copy of this same publication. A leaf from an issue of Empire Topics from 1958, the year Boyd died, announcing a new Massachusetts copper variety, laid in. Volume very worn from use, with spine perished. Good, with problems, though still a notable copy of the separately published edition, offprinted from the American Journal of Numismatics, of these still-standard works. Estimate $500. Ex: F.C.C. Boyd. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15344 (realized $408). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11531

  • Lot 15343

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    Rare Pamphlet Advocating Paper Money Backed by LandPhiladelphia: Printed for the Author by J. Rakestraw, 1834. 8vo, original printed paper covers. 32 pages; printed sample $5 "National Currency" note tipped in as a frontispiece. Near fine. Mendenhall (1759-1843) was a merchant in Wilmington, Delaware, and a proponent of a land-based monetary scheme involving paper money backed by land value, so that "the law that fixed on each bill the stamp of denomination, fixed its standard, as money, also; and at the same time and place, the real value of the land is made to pass into the nominal value of the money." The proposed note included in the volume is a $5 National Currency issue bearing the names of "B. Franklin" and "G. Washington," bearing the grim warning, "To counterfeit is DEATH! And then, Worse Punishment!!," with an accompanying illustration of a hanging man and a devil dragging away a coffin. This booklet was displayed at the Newman Money Museum and retains its display label. Estimate $500. Ex: Burdette G. Johnson. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15343 (realized $432). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11410

  • Lot 15343

    Beschreibung:
    Rare Pamphlet Advocating Paper Money Backed by LandPhiladelphia: Printed for the Author by J. Rakestraw, 1834. 8vo, original printed paper covers. 32 pages; printed sample $5 "National Currency" note tipped in as a frontispiece. Near fine. Mendenhall (1759-1843) was a merchant in Wilmington, Delaware, and a proponent of a land-based monetary scheme involving paper money backed by land value, so that "the law that fixed on each bill the stamp of denomination, fixed its standard, as money, also; and at the same time and place, the real value of the land is made to pass into the nominal value of the money." The proposed note included in the volume is a $5 National Currency issue bearing the names of "B. Franklin" and "G. Washington," bearing the grim warning, "To counterfeit is DEATH! And then, Worse Punishment!!," with an accompanying illustration of a hanging man and a devil dragging away a coffin. This booklet was displayed at the Newman Money Museum and retains its display label. Estimate $500. Ex: Burdette G. Johnson. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15343 (realized $432). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11410

  • Lot 15342

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    Deluxe, Photographically Illustrated Dunham CatalogueFort Worth, June 3, 1941. 4to, original maroon grained full leather, gilt. 287, (1) pages; 4169 lots; frontispiece portrait of Dunham; text illustrations; 3 added photographic plates comprising 6 very fine greatly enlarged photographic prints, mounted back-to-back, depicting both sides of the 1804 dollar, the 1822 half eagle and the 1855 Kellogg & Co. proof fifty dollar gold. B.G. Johnson's copy, with his name impressed in gilt on the front cover. Inscribed, signed, and dated by Mehl. Prices realized list laid in. Edges spotted; board edges a bit worn. Very good. The Deluxe Leatherbound Edition. The only Mehl catalogue issued with photographic plates. Very scarce; perhaps fewer than twenty-five copies were originally issued. Dunham's collection of American coins is one of the finest ever to cross the auction block. Estimate $750. Ex: Burdette G. Johnson. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15342 (realized $504). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11433

  • Lot 15341

    Beschreibung:
    The First Numismatic Article on American CoinsThird Series, Vol. VII (1838). Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown; printed by Freeman and Bolles. 8vo, 19th-century gray pebbled cloth; red morocco spine label, gilt. 304, (2) pages. [Mease's article comprises pages 282 to 283.] Head chipped; some light occasional spotting, else fine. Mease's 1838 article is "the first numismatic article on American coins published in America," according to Eric P. Newman (The Asylum, Summer 1992). Though brief, this work is the foundation upon which U.S. numismatic scholarship stands, and it is of continued relevance: Newman's article discusses how Mease's comments on the Bar Cent and the circulating value of Connecticut coppers have implications for modern scholarship on these pieces. Unlisted in Attinelli. Incredibly, Eric P. Newman purchased this volume directly from the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1992 for $50, it being the last available copy before the Society officially declared the volume to be out of print. Of the highest importance, and quite scarce. Estimate $750. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15341 (realized $192). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11208

  • Lot 15340

    Beschreibung:
    Rare 1777 Objection to Massachusetts Plan To Draw in Bills of CreditExtract from the Minutes for December 15, 1777. Folio, 4 pages. Complete, with attestation of Samuel Freeman, Clerk. Worn, with old folds and mostly marginal discoloration and tears. Some spots and rubbing. Good. A rare publication ordered to be printed and distributed to the towns of the state to address their concerns regarding "An act for drawing in the bills of credit of the several denominations, &c. passed the last session." Evans 15439. Estimate $500. Ex: Goodspeed's Book Shop (3/1958). Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15340 (realized $192). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11320

  • Lot 15339

    Beschreibung:
    1738 Edition of Massachusetts Laws Including Ones About Coins and CurrencyBoston in New-England: Printed by B. Green, Printer to the Honourable the Lieut. Governour & Council, for Benjamin Eliot, and Sold at His Shop Near the Town-House in King's Street, 1726 [and continuing, with final colophon on page 644 reading Boston: Printed by J. Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council]. Title vignette with the Royal Arms. 17, (1), (2), 644 pages, initial pagination being a Table of Contents; several blanks bound following, on three of which a handwritten index has been compiled. [preceded by] The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. (2), 14 pages. Folio [30.5 by 21 cm], contemporary full calf; boards paneled in blind with flourishes in corners and further bordered with double blind fillets; spine with five raised bands. Binding poor, with both boards detached with a few leaves attached, and spine perished; blank at end with first two pages of handwritten index loose; front flyleaf lacking; top margin of title page torn off. Some wrinkling and occasional tears throughout, but complete and without loss to text. Good to very good. As discussed in the previous lot, volumes of Massachusetts laws were published as compendia, being revised, added to, and reprinted every so often in volumes of steadily increasing size. The laws and acts published in this volume were passed beginning in 1692, and include everything listed in the above lot, but are then continued, beginning on page 349, with laws and acts passed at sessions of the Great and General Court or Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay beginning May 25, 1726, through the final session here included of Nov. 30, 1737 (final stating "The Four last Acts were Published January 16. 1737," meaning 1737/8 in the old calendar and 1738 in our own). The later laws and acts include the very important Act for Making Two Thousand Six Hundred Twenty-Five Pounds in Small Bills of Several Denominations, to Be Exchanged for Larger Bills by the Province Treasurer, which includes illustrations of six bills (one penny through sixpence) of the 1737 issue. Estimate $2,500. Ex: New Netherlands Coin Co. (2/1961). Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15339 (realized $600). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11368

  • Lot 15339

    Beschreibung:
    1738 Edition of Massachusetts Laws Including Ones About Coins and CurrencyBoston in New-England: Printed by B. Green, Printer to the Honourable the Lieut. Governour & Council, for Benjamin Eliot, and Sold at His Shop Near the Town-House in King's Street, 1726 [and continuing, with final colophon on page 644 reading Boston: Printed by J. Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council]. Title vignette with the Royal Arms. 17, (1), (2), 644 pages, initial pagination being a Table of Contents; several blanks bound following, on three of which a handwritten index has been compiled. [preceded by] The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. (2), 14 pages. Folio [30.5 by 21 cm], contemporary full calf; boards paneled in blind with flourishes in corners and further bordered with double blind fillets; spine with five raised bands. Binding poor, with both boards detached with a few leaves attached, and spine perished; blank at end with first two pages of handwritten index loose; front flyleaf lacking; top margin of title page torn off. Some wrinkling and occasional tears throughout, but complete and without loss to text. Good to very good. As discussed in the previous lot, volumes of Massachusetts laws were published as compendia, being revised, added to, and reprinted every so often in volumes of steadily increasing size. The laws and acts published in this volume were passed beginning in 1692, and include everything listed in the above lot, but are then continued, beginning on page 349, with laws and acts passed at sessions of the Great and General Court or Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay beginning May 25, 1726, through the final session here included of Nov. 30, 1737 (final stating "The Four last Acts were Published January 16. 1737," meaning 1737/8 in the old calendar and 1738 in our own). The later laws and acts include the very important Act for Making Two Thousand Six Hundred Twenty-Five Pounds in Small Bills of Several Denominations, to Be Exchanged for Larger Bills by the Province Treasurer, which includes illustrations of six bills (one penny through sixpence) of the 1737 issue. Estimate $2,500. Ex: New Netherlands Coin Co. (2/1961). Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15339 (realized $600). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11368

  • Lot 15338

    Beschreibung:
    1726 Edition of Massachusetts Laws Including Ones About Coins and CurrencyBoston in New-England: Printed by B. Green, Printer to the Honourable the Lieut. Governour & Council, for Benjamin Eliot, and Sold at His Shop Near the Town-House in King's Street, 1726. Title vignette with the Royal Arms. (2), 347, (1), 17, (1) pages, final pagination being a Table of Contents. [preceded by] The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. (2), 14 pages. Folio [30 by 20.5 cm], contemporary full calf; boards paneled in blind with flourishes in corners and further bordered with double blind fillets; spine with five raised bands. Final printed leaf with marginal loss; annotations to endpapers. Some spotting and browning, mostly marginal. Joints weak, but binding intact. A very good copy of the second collected volume of Massachusetts laws. A notation on the opening blank indicates that this volume belonged to the Town of Norton, and in 1770 was the property of the Parish of Mansfield. An early and rare collection of the laws and acts of the Massachusetts Bay colony, printed in Boston in 1726. Of unusual historical importance, being a contemporary printing of the Charter under which the Massachusetts Bay province operated and the acts and laws promulgated for its government. Volumes of the Massachusetts laws were published as compendia (see following lot), in that they were devised as continually evolving documents, added to and redacted and reprinted every so often in volumes of steadily increasing size. The laws and acts published in this volume were passed beginning in 1692, and include the infamous "scarlet letter" law (punishing adultery by forcing offenders to wear a capital A on their clothing for ever after) made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Of more numismatic relevance is the Massachusetts Bay colony's printing of the 1708 Act of Parliament enforcing Queen Anne's 1704 Proclamation attempting to regulate the value of coins being used in the American colonies. This Parliamentary Act is of the utmost numismatic importance for the period, and is discussed by Crosby (Early Coins of America, pages 117-122) and Mossman (Money of the American Colonies and Confederation, pages 48-53). The 1708 Act includes the text of the original 1704 Proclamation, and specifically orders that the text be printed in America: which is what this is. Other acts of numismatic relevance included in this volume are: "An Act for Ascertaining the Value of Coynes Currant within This Province," which affirms the continued current status of Massachusetts silver coinage (May 26, 1697; page 87); "An Act Against the Making or Passing of Base or Counterfeit Money" (May 29, 1700; page 147); "An Act for Making and Emitting of Bills of Publick Credit" (May 27, 1702; pages 170-172); "An Act Against the Diminishing and Counterfeiting of Money" (March 10, 1702; page 175); "An Act Against Counterfeiting the Bills of Credit on This Province" (May 31, 1704; pages 181-182); "An Act for Exchanging the Twenty Shilling Bill of Credit, &c." (May 31, 1710; page 210); "An Act for Securing the Bills of Credit on the Neighbouring Governments" (May 30, 1711; page 211); and "An Act for the Better Securing of the Bills of Credit on This Province from Forgery and Corruption; and for Drawing in the Ten Shilling, and Three and Six-penny Bills" (May 27, 1713; page 229-230). There are many subsequent laws relating to coinage and paper money as well, the most important of which may be the printing on pages 299-300 of the "Act for Emitting Five Hundred Pounds in Small Bills of Several Denominations, to Be Exchanged for Larger Bills by the Province Treasurer," which illustrates the June 1722 issue of One Penny, Two Pence, and Three Pence notes. Evans 2762. Estimate $5,000. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15338 (realized $3600). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11367