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  • Lot 15234

    Beschreibung:
    Original Typewritten Inventory of Dr. Hall's Connecticut CoppersA.W. Brand, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois -- Consigned to B.G. Johnson, 408 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. October 13, 1936 ["13" written in by hand]. 15 pages total, typewritten on 8.5 by 11 inch onionskin typewriter duplicate paper. This is the original copy of the inventory used by Johnson and bearing his annotations. (The full Johnson archives of the Virgil Brand collection present in this sale include these pages in photocopy.) Two pages with "Checked as complete April 47" written in pencil. Individual coins ink-stamped in red as being paid for. Generally fine or nearly so. An extraordinary record of this magnificent collection of Connecticut coppers running to 356 coins including duplicates. The consignment is split into two parts: coins numbered 1700 to 1931 + 4 additional listings valued at $766.00; and coins numbered 1932 to 2051 listed at $975.75, for a total price of $1741.75. If Colonial coins were not as well appreciated in the 1930s as they are today, it is certainly true that state coppers were afforded even less respect--and of the state coppers, those of Connecticut were perhaps the least coveted. Uncirculated examples are usually priced here between $10 and $20, and a circulated copper has to be of exceptional rarity to reach the lofty heights of a double-digit price. It was a different world. Dr. Thomas Hall (1841-1909) was the foremost scholar of his time on the Connecticut copper coinage, and his research has shaped the scope and terms of the field to this day. While his full manuscript on the Connecticut coppers remains unpublished (two copies are extant, one in the Connecticut State Library), his work on the 1787 pieces was printed and privately distributed to a small number of contemporaries for their comments and revisions. This 1892 work, A Descriptive List of the Coppers Issued by Authority, for the State of Connecticut, for the Year 1787, remains one of the rarest published works on any aspect of American coinage. Coppers whose provenance are traced back to his collection are highly valued today, making this inventory of his collection particularly desirable. Estimate $1,500. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15234 (realized $1920). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11474

  • Lot 15233

    Beschreibung:
    Dr. Thomas Hall's Numismatic Inventory An Exceptionally Detailed Collection RecordBoston, etc., 1888-1909. Small 4to, original maroon half leather; rebacked spine with four raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers reinforced at hinges in black. 408 pages, on most of which have been neatly recorded in several inks Hall's sizable coin collection. Binding rubbed; generally near fine. An extraordinary volume, being Dr. Thomas Hall's original manuscript record of most of his famous collection. The ledger belonged to Burdette Johnson in 1946, at which time George H. Clapp wrote to Sydney Noe at the American Numismatic Society suggesting that Johnson might give the volume to the Society, but that, in the meantime, photostating it "may give you all that you need." The ANS had a microfilmed photostat produced as suggested, but Clapp hoped that Johnson would decide to donate the book, "so let us be very nice to Johnson." As it happened, Johnson died within a year of the microfilm being produced and the Hall inventory accompanied the rest of Johnson's library when it was acquired by Eric P. Newman. The ledger fell from collective numismatic memory until it was brought back to wider attention by Ned Barnsley, writing in the April 1984 issue of the Colonial Newsletter. He wrote: {blockquote}"In September 1946, The American Numismatic Society borrowed a 408 page manuscript on Early American coins written by Thomas P. Hall, and a photographic copy of it was made on microfilm for use in the Society's library. No record was made of the original owner, and its present whereabouts cannot now be ascertained. This notebook contains accession records and all sorts of miscellanea numismatica concerning Hall's wide collection of Colonials, with one exception ... Connecticut Coppers are not even mentioned in this notebook, because he recorded all of them in another book containing 288 numbered pages."{/blockquote} This tells us what the volume does not contain--the inventory of Connecticut coppers that would have been of greatest personal importance to Barnsley--but leaves us to discuss what it does include. The scope of the collection far surpasses what one might expect. The ledger is over 400 pages long, and very few of those pages are blank. While an exhaustive overview is beyond the scope of an auction description, a glance through these pages shows us Washington medals--forty pages of them, followed by a carefully tabulated chart listing Baker's classification of the medals--followed by other presidential and political medals, Masonic medals, Centennial medals, school medals, Admiral Vernon medals, and so on. The medals continue through page 186 of the ledger, indicating the scope of his medallic holdings (which include yet more Washington material listed after the initial batch). Various tokens and Colonial series follow, with tables listing Hard Times Tokens by Low number, and Massachusetts, Virginia, and Vermont coppers arranged according to Crosby. The New Jersey series is arranged by Maris number, with pages following listing New York and Nova Constellatio pieces, Fugio coppers, William Wood's coinage, the Voce Populi coppers, Talbot, Allum & Lee tokens, Castorland jetons, Chalmers pieces, Continental Currency issues, Maryland silver, Immune/Immunis Columbia pieces, and Sommer Islands coinage. The Massachusetts silver follows. An important section sees Hall discussing the Fugio pieces in detail. He here gives a more detailed description of what he terms the "Fugio Patterns" before starting in earnest on what he terms his "Fugios Original Classification," an apparently unpublished attribution and classification system for the Fugio coppers of Hall's own devising. This section is followed by more Massachusetts silver, then by a substantial number of listings given over to U.S. patterns. Then, and only then, do the regular U.S. series begin. The large cents are thoroughly described, with many provenances recorded. (This ledger has at times been referred to elsewhere as Hall's "Colonial Encyclopedia," but this is misleading.) The U.S. issues are only described through the dimes, after which Hall returns to the Colonials, including copying out by hand his October 1903 article in the American Journal of Numismatics concerning "A New Rosa Americana Two-Pence," which he signs. Various notes to be integrated into earlier parts of the ledger follow. It is important to note that Hall treated this as a living document. A quick perusal demonstrates that he revisited entries, adding information to them as he found it, so that it is not at all uncommon for entries to be written in multiple inks. Hall even recorded every time he retrieved various coin trays from his cabinets for inspection. This was a volume that was continually used and updated, revised and amended, by Hall, as he studied and enjoyed his collection. It is a pleasure to spend time with and of exceptional importance to American numismatic history. One of the real gems of the Eric P. Newman library. Estimate $15,000. Ex: Dr. Thomas P. Hall; Virgil Brand; Armin Brand; Burdette G. Johnson. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15233 (realized $20400). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11402

  • Lot 15233

    Beschreibung:
    Dr. Thomas Hall's Numismatic Inventory An Exceptionally Detailed Collection RecordBoston, etc., 1888-1909. Small 4to, original maroon half leather; rebacked spine with four raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers reinforced at hinges in black. 408 pages, on most of which have been neatly recorded in several inks Hall's sizable coin collection. Binding rubbed; generally near fine. An extraordinary volume, being Dr. Thomas Hall's original manuscript record of most of his famous collection. The ledger belonged to Burdette Johnson in 1946, at which time George H. Clapp wrote to Sydney Noe at the American Numismatic Society suggesting that Johnson might give the volume to the Society, but that, in the meantime, photostating it "may give you all that you need." The ANS had a microfilmed photostat produced as suggested, but Clapp hoped that Johnson would decide to donate the book, "so let us be very nice to Johnson." As it happened, Johnson died within a year of the microfilm being produced and the Hall inventory accompanied the rest of Johnson's library when it was acquired by Eric P. Newman. The ledger fell from collective numismatic memory until it was brought back to wider attention by Ned Barnsley, writing in the April 1984 issue of the Colonial Newsletter. He wrote: {blockquote}"In September 1946, The American Numismatic Society borrowed a 408 page manuscript on Early American coins written by Thomas P. Hall, and a photographic copy of it was made on microfilm for use in the Society's library. No record was made of the original owner, and its present whereabouts cannot now be ascertained. This notebook contains accession records and all sorts of miscellanea numismatica concerning Hall's wide collection of Colonials, with one exception ... Connecticut Coppers are not even mentioned in this notebook, because he recorded all of them in another book containing 288 numbered pages."{/blockquote} This tells us what the volume does not contain--the inventory of Connecticut coppers that would have been of greatest personal importance to Barnsley--but leaves us to discuss what it does include. The scope of the collection far surpasses what one might expect. The ledger is over 400 pages long, and very few of those pages are blank. While an exhaustive overview is beyond the scope of an auction description, a glance through these pages shows us Washington medals--forty pages of them, followed by a carefully tabulated chart listing Baker's classification of the medals--followed by other presidential and political medals, Masonic medals, Centennial medals, school medals, Admiral Vernon medals, and so on. The medals continue through page 186 of the ledger, indicating the scope of his medallic holdings (which include yet more Washington material listed after the initial batch). Various tokens and Colonial series follow, with tables listing Hard Times Tokens by Low number, and Massachusetts, Virginia, and Vermont coppers arranged according to Crosby. The New Jersey series is arranged by Maris number, with pages following listing New York and Nova Constellatio pieces, Fugio coppers, William Wood's coinage, the Voce Populi coppers, Talbot, Allum & Lee tokens, Castorland jetons, Chalmers pieces, Continental Currency issues, Maryland silver, Immune/Immunis Columbia pieces, and Sommer Islands coinage. The Massachusetts silver follows. An important section sees Hall discussing the Fugio pieces in detail. He here gives a more detailed description of what he terms the "Fugio Patterns" before starting in earnest on what he terms his "Fugios Original Classification," an apparently unpublished attribution and classification system for the Fugio coppers of Hall's own devising. This section is followed by more Massachusetts silver, then by a substantial number of listings given over to U.S. patterns. Then, and only then, do the regular U.S. series begin. The large cents are thoroughly described, with many provenances recorded. (This ledger has at times been referred to elsewhere as Hall's "Colonial Encyclopedia," but this is misleading.) The U.S. issues are only described through the dimes, after which Hall returns to the Colonials, including copying out by hand his October 1903 article in the American Journal of Numismatics concerning "A New Rosa Americana Two-Pence," which he signs. Various notes to be integrated into earlier parts of the ledger follow. It is important to note that Hall treated this as a living document. A quick perusal demonstrates that he revisited entries, adding information to them as he found it, so that it is not at all uncommon for entries to be written in multiple inks. Hall even recorded every time he retrieved various coin trays from his cabinets for inspection. This was a volume that was continually used and updated, revised and amended, by Hall, as he studied and enjoyed his collection. It is a pleasure to spend time with and of exceptional importance to American numismatic history. One of the real gems of the Eric P. Newman library. Estimate $15,000. Ex: Dr. Thomas P. Hall; Virgil Brand; Armin Brand; Burdette G. Johnson. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15233 (realized $20400). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11402

  • Lot 15233

    Beschreibung:
    Original Hall on 1787 Connecticut CoppersBoston: Privately printed, for additions and corrections, 1892. 8vo, original black half calf, gilt, with brown cloth sides; upper cover lettered in gilt. 58 pages. First 16 pages with corresponding reverse page numbers filled in by hand in ink. Hall's rare work was intended to be distributed among a select circle of fellow collectors. With the benefit of their comments and additions to the list, a final version of the work was to be published--but it never reached fruition. The original leather binding used poor materials and most copies are either rebound or (as here) in well-worn condition. Spine worn and chipped. Contents very good or better. Estimate $2,000. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15232 (realized $2280). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11005

  • Lot 15232

    Beschreibung:
    Original Hall on 1787 Connecticut CoppersBoston: Privately printed, for additions and corrections, 1892. 8vo, original black half calf, gilt, with brown cloth sides; upper cover lettered in gilt. 58 pages. First 16 pages with corresponding reverse page numbers filled in by hand in ink. Hall's rare work was intended to be distributed among a select circle of fellow collectors. With the benefit of their comments and additions to the list, a final version of the work was to be published--but it never reached fruition. The original leather binding used poor materials and most copies are either rebound or (as here) in well-worn condition. Spine worn and chipped. Contents very good or better. Estimate $2,000. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15232 (realized $2280). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11005

  • Lot 15231

    Beschreibung:
    Rare 1862 Descriptive Register of Genuine Bank Notes for the Detection of Spurious and Altered Bills, Containing Accurate, Elaborate and Plain Descriptions of the Notes Issued by Every Bank in the United States and Canada, Conveniently Arranged for Reference, Prepared under the Supervision of the Publishers, Who Acknowledge Their Indebtedness to the Several Firms Now Comprising the American Bank Note Company for Much Valuable Information. New York, 1862. 4to, original intricately blindstamped brown cloth, gilt. 152; (145)-154 pages, with the main text ending at 144 and followed by a Supplement comprising (145)-164, followed immediately by a second Supplement including a List of Broken and Closed Banks paginated as (165)-168, followed by yet another Supplement paginated (145)-160 that is different from the first one starting at page 145. Spine a bit frayed; a few leaves coming loose. Very good. Supplements paginated up to 168 are the latest of which we find records. A very rare edition, though not the last: Dillistin records editions up through 1866 in his 1949 Bank Note Reporters and Counterfeit Detectors 1826-1866 (page 149). Estimate $500. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15231 (realized $528). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11351

  • Lot 15230

    Beschreibung:
    Rare 1860 Descriptive Register of Genuine Bank Notes for the Detection of Spurious and Altered Bills, Containing Accurate, Elaborate and Plain Descriptions of the Notes Issued by Every Bank in the United States and Canada, Conveniently Arranged for Reference, Prepared under the Supervision of the Publishers, Who Acknowledge Their Indebtedness to the Several Firms Now Comprising the American Bank Note Company for Much Valuable Information. New York, 1860. 4to, modern brown cloth onto which has been mounted the original brown cloth, front lettered in gilt. 152; (145)-154 pages, with the main text ending at 144 and followed by a Supplement comprising (145)-152, followed immediately by a second Supplement paginated as (145)-154. Opening blank stained, else a near fine copy. As mentioned above, determining the sequence of emission of the various Gwynne & Day Supplements is difficult, mainly because one so rarely has the opportunity to examine several at the same time. While they remain mysterious, what is not unclear is that any Gwynne & Day Register with a title page dated 1860 or later is a genuine rarity. Estimate $400 Ex: Zonne & Company (10/1970); Glenn Smedley. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15230 (realized $384). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11350

  • Lot 15229

    Beschreibung:
    1859 First Edition of Gwynne & Day's Descriptive Registerfor the Detection of Spurious and Altered Bills, Containing Accurate, Elaborate and Plain Descriptions of the Notes Issued by Every Bank in the United States and Canada, Conveniently Arranged for Reference, Prepared under the Supervision of the Publishers, Who Acknowledge Their Indebtedness to the Several Firms Now Comprising the American Bank Note Company for Much Valuable Information. New York, 1859. First edition. 4to, original intricately blindstamped brown cloth, gilt. 142; (145)-152 pages, the second pagination being a Supplement bound in; a later Supplement, paginated (145)-160 and entirely different, laid in. Some spotting and browning. Very good or better. The first edition of John A. Gwynne and Clarence S. Day's useful work describing genuine notes issued by over 1400 different banks. Quite scarce, though the rarity of subsequent editions makes this one appear deceptively available. The various Supplements issued for these works are bibliographically complex. Clain-Stefanelli 13627. Dillistin 148. McKerchar 2076. Estimate $300 Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15229 (realized $156). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11349

  • Lot 15228

    Beschreibung:
    Original Greco Plates on Massachusetts Coppers & Various Modern Colonial Coin PlatesTwo original black-and-white photographic prints, 8 by 10 inches, depicting the die varieties of Massachusetts cents [one plate with ink annotation]; also one original black-and-white photographic print, 5 by 7 inches, depicting the die varieties of Massachusetts half cents. Somerville, 1962. Included are original typewritten letters, signed, dated Oct. 17 and Dec. 18, 1962 from Greco to Eric P. Newman, concerning these plates, Greco's Massachusetts Conversion Table, and relevant pages from the Colonial Newsletter. Also included in this lot are the following modern plates of Colonial and Continental coins: Rod Widok's 2002 color plate of Nova Constellatio die varieties, with his listing of auction appearances; and Jack Howes's four color plates illustrating Counterfeit English Halfpence Struck in Early America, one of them inscribed by Howes to Eric P. Newman. All plates fine. Estimate $500. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15228 (realized $240). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11601

  • Lot 15227

    Beschreibung:
    Very Rare Gallahue Counterfeit Bank Note ExpositerNew York: T. Frere, Printer, 83 Nassau Street, 1854. 16mo, later red cloth, gilt; original printed paper wraps, the front bearing several woodcut illustrations of bank note design elements, bound in; binder's leaves added for bulk. 32 pages; illustrated throughout with woodcuts depicting bank note lettering, numbering, portraits, vignettes, and so on. Quite worn, with some tape repairs, though modern binding is fine. Very rare, and unlisted in Dillistin. Estimate $500. Ex: Mayflower (5/1968); Melvin & George Fuld; Frank Katen (8/1971). Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15227 (realized $576). Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11422