ANDREW ZABRISKIE BIOGRAPHY

This is belated news to those who have a copy of the June 1999 Sotheby's sale of The Captain Andrew C. Zabriskie Collection, but the catalog features a nice one-page biography of the pioneer American collector by David E. Tripp. Zabriskie's collection of U.S. coins was sold by Henry Chapman in 1909, but "Andrew Zabriskie's most lasting achievement as a collector must be in the field of Political tokens and medals, and most specifically his focus on the sixteenth president. His pioneering work, "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Political and memorial Medals Struck in Honor of Abraham Lincoln", which he wrote and published in 1873, is a modest work of which only seventy-five copies were printed, but it became the foundation of the collecting area which has become known as Lincolniana."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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The E-Sylum: Volume 02, Number 44, October 31, 1999, Article 6

ANDREW ZABRISKIE BIOGRAPHY

Wayne Homren, Editor