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The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 40, September 30, 2001, Article 3 KOLBE SALES: JOHN F. BERGMAN LIBRARY AND MORE The following are excerpts from the press release for the upcoming Kolbe literature sales: "George Frederick Kolbe/Fine Numismatic Books is pleased to announce that the public and mail bid auction sale of Part One of the John F. Bergman Library will take place on Saturday, October 6, 2001, at 10:30 AM, in conjunction with the Long Beach Coin & Collectibles Expo at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California. The 450 lot sale will be immediately followed by "One Hundred Rarities of American Numismatic Literature." The 550 lots are expected to realize over a quarter million dollars. Some of the many highlights follow: The Numismatic Correspondence Archive of Charles Ruby, bound in twenty thick volumes entitled "Fifty Years Along Coin Ways" features some 5,000 items of numismatic interest, including an extensive file of letters relating to the expulsion of Frank Katen from the American Numismatic Association in 1950 during the period when Ruby was an A. N. A Board member, and it also features fascinating letters from hundreds of the most famous coin dealers and collectors of the 1930s to 1970s period; important selections from the John W. Adams library are featured, including unique bid books of Thomas Elder's famous Mougey and Gehring sales, a fascinating correspondence file of letters from B. G. Johnson to Tom Elder, including details of Johnson's purchases from the Colonel Green estate; several unique references from the Adams library deal with U. S. pattern coins, including F. C. C. Boyd's manuscript record of his pattern collection, an interleaved 1913 Adams-Woodin work on patterns, heavily annotated by Abe Kosoff, and over 200 early annotated photographs of minor pattern coins, some unique; Among the highlights of the John Bergman library are over forty outstanding early printed numismatic books, many superbly bound, including the 1522 edition of the first numismatic book and the 1517 edition of the first illustrated numismatic book; Hiram Deats' superb set of the "American Journal of Numismatics," Volumes 1-47; Colonel Green's deluxe copy of Browning's 1925 classic on U. S. quarter dollars, one of only 5 copies issued; nearly 200 lots of important works on ancient coins; Each catalogue may be ordered by sending $15.00 to Kolbe, or both the Bergman and "Rarities" sale catalogues may be obtained by sending $25.00. The catalogues may also be viewed free of charge at the firm's web site: www.numislit.com." Kolbe adds: "While bids by mail, email and fax flowed in, for over a week after war was declared on our country the telephone hardly rang and I made very few calls. Since the beginning of this week, the phone has been "ringing off the hook" and it appears that daily life is returning to some degree of normalcy."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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