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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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