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Subject: Re: Wuertzbach Pedigree
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--- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "mantoloking2002"
<mantoloking2002@y...> wrote:
> Ed,
>
> Mmmmmm. Kind of makes sense. Clarke in the pedigree chain and
seemed
> to use New Netherlands for his various auctions. Maybe he sold
this
> one collection outright to Boyd and then Boyd to Ford.
Pedigree of the Wuertzbach collection of Massachusetts silver:
Charles Edwin Clapp, Senior - Carl Wuertzbach - T. James Clarke,
July 1952 - T. James Clarke Estate, ca. September 1954 - Frederick
Charles Cogswell Boyd, 1958 - Frederick Charles Cogswell Boyd
Estate - John Jay Ford, Junior.
C. E. Clapp, Vice President of the Crucible Steel Company, was the
elder brother of George H. Clapp. Charles collected colonials,
George collected large cents. Charles's son, Charles Edwin, Junior,
was an alcoholic and a stockbroker. The latter habit was more
dangerous than the former, because Charles Junior lost $600,000 in
six months during the Crash. Even with a healthy tolerance for
liquor, you can't drink $600,000 worth of Scotch in six months. As
Charles Junior's career went down the tubes, Charles Senior sold off
his collections to support Junior. Wuertzbach held the collection
until he had to raise money because of a major embezzlement at the
bank of which he was an officer in Lee, Massachusetts. (This
pedigree is beginning to sound like one of those diamonds with a
mysterious curse.) When Jimmy Clarke owned the collection, he had
special boxes lined with gold foil paper made up for the collection
with specially printed labels, since he owned the Clarke Box and
Label Works of Jamestown, New York. Unfortunately, because Jimmy
Clarke wasn't that bright a guy, a lot of the labels have
misinformation on them (e.g. Virgil Brand's middle initial is given
as C, when it should be M). The Executrix of the Clarke Estate,
Jimmy's widow, Hazel Clarke, sold the collection off piecemeal; the
Massachusetts silver was probably sold off via New Netherlands, and
was bought by Boyd. Ford got it from the Boyd Estate. Notable
holdings - a willow tree threepence. Note that the pedigree in
Breen's Encyclopedia is incorrect. The Bushnell Parmelee coin is
the one in the ANS.
John Kleeberg
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