CANCELED AUCTIONS 上市 Deposited
QUICK QUIZ ANSWERS
The E-Sylum: Volume 2, Number 52, December 26, 1999, Article 4
QUICK QUIZ ANSWERS: CANCELED AUCTIONS
Saul Teichman and Joel Orosz took the hint and correctly
named the 1865 J.N.T. Levick sale by Edward Cogan.
Originally scheduled for April 27-29, 1865, the sale was
postponed due to the assassination of President Lincoln on
April 14th, 1865. Lincoln was shot while attending a
performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.E. J Attinelli, in his 1876 work "Numisgraphics", had this to
say about the sale: "... it was thought advisable to postpone,
in consequence of the excited state of the entire people,
consequent upon the assassination of President Lincoln by
Junius B. Booth, who had escaped, but was subsequently
captured mortally wounded." [NOTE: Attinelli confused
the facts here - Junius B. Booth, also an actor, was the
FATHER of John Wilkes Booth, the Lincoln assassin.]"The catalogue was printed and issued in several ways, with
and without the part in which was the catalogue-portion of
Mr. Levick's collection, also each separately; also, 12 copies
of each printed on large paper. Mr. Levick, in consequence
of the state of affairs, issued but few copies with the cover
bearing the preceding date, the greater portion of the
edition was stripped of its covers and replaced with a new
one, bearing the following date, when the sale took place."Attinelli lists the sale as having taken place May 29th. In the
"show-n-tell" department, I have a copy of this sale in my
library. It is a priced copy, one of twelve interleaved with
ruled paper, as noted in the sale's last lot (lot 135). It bears
the original sale date of April 27-29, 1865. Anyone else
care to report a copy of the sale?- 1999-12-26
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