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[Colonial Numismatics] Norweb's Washingtonia
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From: "John M. Kleeberg" <jmkleeberg@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [Colonial Numismatics] Norweb's Washingtonia: Ever sold at public aucton?
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> colonialcoinunion@c... wrote:
>I note that the Norweb Sale 1, 2 and 3 catalogs don't contain any
Washington pieces.
>
> Does this mean they were never sold at auction?
I believe that most of the top line Washingtonia were donated to the
American Numismatic Society in 1975 - accession number 1975.122.
One example of a Washingtonia rarity ex Norweb that is now in the
ANS is Breen Encyclopedia number 1252, of which Breen says only two
are known; the piece that he says is in the Norweb collection had
already been donated to the ANS by the time his Encyclopedia was
published. My only hesitation is that the Norwebs often had number
one collections, number two collections, and could donate or sell
the various collections in different places. That happened with the
seventeenth century tokens, for instance. The number two collection
was donated to the ANS, and the number one collection was sold off
through Spink's. Mind you, even if you are only dining off scraps
that fall from the Norwebs' table, you still enjoy a very rich diet.
At one point when looking through the ANS Washingtonia trays I came
across a Washington Market Chowder Club piece in silver (there was
one in Garrett in gold). I showed it to George Fuld. Fuld told
me: "That is probably the best Washingtonia piece the ANS has." So
that's one of the great rarities.
John M. Kleeberg - 2004-03-31
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