JOHN J. FORD LIBRARY UPDATE Publique Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 6, Number 48, November 9, 2003, Article 3
JOHN J. FORD LIBRARY UPDATE
George Kolbe writes: "An update on some of the more
interesting items in the John J. Ford, Jr. Library, catalogued
up to October 25, 2003, follows. This report was being
finalized two weeks ago when fate intervened, and we are
most pleased that it remains relevant.The Bid Book of the Chapman brothers' 1903 Disbrow
and Friedman Fractional Currency saleThe Bid Book of the Chapman brothers' 1904 Ralph Barker
sale with Plates, including two additional plates virtually unknownStorelli's Extremely Rare 1896 Work on Jean-Baptiste
Nini MedalsA 1771 Mexico City Mint Ordinance, comprising Rules and
Regulations of the First Mint in the New WorldA fine example of S. H. Chapman's 1909 Zug sale with Plates,
intact in the original gilt-printed pictorial paper coversA superb example of S. H. Chapman's 1923 Beckwith sale
with Plates, with a letter from Chapman to Virgil Brand
reading in part: "The plates in the Beckwith are, I think, the
finest I have ever taken"A superb example of S. H. Chapman's 1921 Henderson sale
with Plates, in Original StateThe Bid Book of Henry Chapman's 1908 A. N. A. Sale
The Bid Book of the Chapman brothers' 1904 Charles Morris
sale with PlatesThe Bid Book of the Chapman brothers' 1897 CM. A. Brown
sale with one of only two surviving sets of Photographic PlatesThe Bid Book of the Chapman brothers' 1895 Chaloner sale
with PlatesA large collection of Heath Counterfeit Detectors, both Pocket
and Banking & Counting House Editions, including a deluxe
Leatherbound Edition and two Household EditionsWorks on British medals and decorations, including Creagh &
Humphris, Tancred, Payne, Mayo, et al.A very fine set of Mason's Coin and Stamp Collectors' Magazine
A very fine copy of Eckfeldt & Du Bous' 1849 Manual of Gold
and Silver Coins, the first edition to contain samples of '49er GoldA set of 1945 Photographs of George Clapp's Large Cents
A Specially Printed Second Edition of Bushnell's 1859
"First three Business Tokens," the first we've seenAn extremely rare Leatherbound Edition of Raymond's "United
States Gold Coins of the Philadelphia and Branch Mints,"
featuring a record of Waldo Newcomer's collection of double eaglesA "Mint" example of S. H. Chapman's 1913 Lyman Sale with
Plates; also, the Lyman Sale Bid Book with PlatesA lovely example of Ormsby's 1852 Description of the Present
System of Bank Note EngravingA Very Fine 1923 Edition of Chapman on 1794 cents
A Deluxe Leatherbound Edition of Newcomb's Cents of the
Years 1801-1802-1803, Ex Henry Hines and Homer DowningA Deluxe Leatherbound Edition of Clapp's Cents of the Years
1798-1799. Copy No. 3, Inscribed to Henry HinesA superb example of F. C. C. Boyd's Deluxe Leatherbound
Browning on Quarter Dollars, One of Only Five IssuedAn Original 1969 Showers Half Cent Inventory, No. 10 of only
12 issued with photographic platesA 1944 Leatherbound Newcomb work on late dates, inscribed
by the Stacks "To Johnie Ford."Copy No. 1 of the Deluxe Leatherbound Beistle Book on
Early Half Dollars, Inscribed to Colonel GreenAn Inscribed copy of Herrera's Classic Work on Proclamation
MedalsEarly Mint Reports and Documents, one concerning "The
probability of the abolition of the mint establishment"The Bid Book of J. Schulman's 1930 Amsterdam sale of the
Fernand David Collection of "The Coins and Medals of America"A Superbly Bound set of Phillips' 1865-1866 "Historical
Sketches of the Paper Currency of the American Colonies"A Superb Plated Beckwith Sale With Plates, including a
letter from Beckwith to Henry Hines, reading in part: "You
ask why I am parting with my coins. I am not going to try to
pull off any moth eaten stuff about failing eyesight or interested
along other lines. The plain unadulterated truth is I need the
money. That is I don't feel as if I can afford to keep so much
money tied up. I have succeeded in bringing together a
collection which suited my fancy and I can't go much further
without going into minute varieties and that I don't want to do."A "Near New" example of a Plated Alvord Half Cent Sale
A Very Fine Copy No. 4 of Gilbert's 1916 work on half
cents, ex libris Wayte RaymondThe 1751 Edition of William Douglass's "Discourse
Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America"Five Superb American Bond Detectors: One with a rare variety
of the coin plates; one beautifully bound in full morocco, and one
a "Salesman's Sample"Thomas Elder's rare Plated 1910 Gilbert Sale, with the Coin
Plate Legends Fully IntactA Very Fine Example of Thian's 1880 "Register of the
Confederate Debt"; One of Only Five Copies, and by far the
finest of the three that we have seenHomer Downing's 1945 Newcomb Cent Sale With
Photographic IllustrationsSpencer M. Clark's Letter Record of the National Currency
Bureau, June 10, 1863 to March 2, 1864The Bid Book of Lyman Low's 1907 Hays-Phelps Sale of
1794 Cents"- 2003-11-09
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