BASS III RESULTS

Part 3 of the Harry Bass, Jr. Numismatic Library sales is now history. The sale was held Saturday, September 25, at the Long Beach Coin & Collectibles Expo, by George Frederick Kolbe. Would any of the attendees care to give us a report? The prices realized list has been published - here are a few highlights:

Lot 5, the W. G. Jerrems set of The Numismatist brought $27,000. Lot 62, the deluxe leatherbound copy of Ard Browning's 1925 work on U.S. Quarters brought $8,500.

Lot 347, an advertising broadside for J.L. Riddell's "Monograph of the Silver Dollar", 1845, brought an astounding $2,700 on an estimate of $750. Lot 411, the Fuld set of Woodward catalogs, brought $16,000.

Wayne Homren, Editor

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The E-Sylum: Volume 02, Number 40, October 3, 1999, Article 2

BASS III RESULTS

Wayne Homren, Editor