ON AUCTION CATALOG WEIGHT

Auction catalog weight — it’s not lumber doing that
— its dirt ( Well, OK, clay)

Ever ask yourself: Wait a minute, books are made out of paper and paper is made out of wood. So why is this coin auction catalog heavier than a similar-sized plank of wood? The reason those beautiful auction catalogs are so darn heavy I learned from my old field of advertising which involved a lot of coordination with printers: Clay coated paper.

NOTE: I am a new NBS member, and over the last two months I have read every E-Sylum of the last 15 years and seen no mention of catalog paper weight — thus here you go!

This advertising device I dealt with during more than 25 years as an advertising agency owner. Those wonderful glossy catalogs with those razor-sharp images are printed on the nicest paper stock for photos which is called coated stock. Coated with what? The coating is white clay. So you could say that is a type of dirt, or mud or pottery being added to wood pulp and doubling the weight of the basic paper’s ground wood.

If photographs are just sort-of important, the book can be printed on a nice uncoated stock. But when many millions of dollars worth of coins and banknotes are being illustrated, only razor-sharp, vibrant reproduction of four-color images will do.

Coated papers have a smooth clay coating applied over the groundwood base paper. The base paper is made first, then put through a bath of clay coating while running on a machine, followed by calender rollers smoothing out the coating and adding as much as half the weight of the paper.

Coated papers are categorized into grades by their brightness and gloss levels, but they all add a lot of weight because of the clay coating. The coating is finished to a high gloss, or it may be matte, or dull. The most expensive of the coated papers are the heaviest — and those coin auction companies do not cut corners.

Archives International Auctions, Part XXIX

U.S. & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, Coins,
Historic Artifacts & Ephemera, Artwork, Autographs
and Security Printing Ephemera

October 24th & 29th, 2015

Click the links! Highlights include:

• Lot 26: Thomas Spencer - Honolulu - Sandwich Islands 1858
• Lot 320: Accelerating Steam Navigation Co. 1841 Ten shares
• Lot 363: Confederate States Bond. $10,000. Cr.146, B-339.
• Lot 413: First Liberty Loan Converted 4 _% Gold Bond of 1932-1947
• Lot 607: Fijian Government Debenture, 1872 Issue
• Lot 715: Bono De Caja, El Banco Comercial Refaccionario De Chihuahua
• Lot 738: Banco Nacional Del Peru, 1877 Provisional Issue Specimen
• Lot 809: Bank of Zambia, ND (1964) Specimen Banknote.
• Lot 948: British American Bank Note Company Engravers & Printers Proof
• Lot 960: Draper, Underwood, Bald & Spencer, ND, ca.1820's Sample Sheet.
• Lot 1000: Colonial Pennsylvania, 15 Shillings 5.20.1758.
• Lot 1056: Cherokee Insurance & Banking Co. 2 Dollars. 1862.
• Lot 1139: Bank of America, 1879 Specimen $10,000 Clearing House Certificate.
• Lot 1148: Manufacturers Bank, 184x Proof Banknote on a Proof Vignette Sheet
• Lot 1229: Confederate States. 5 Dollars. 1861.
• Lot 1280: Legal Tender Note. 1863 Series. 5 Dollars.
• Lot 1298: Hackettstown National Bank of NJ., Second Charter $10.00

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