The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 50, November 27, 2005, Article 3

KOBLE SALE 98 RESULTS

Auction Sale 98 Results: George Frederick Kolbe/Fine
Numismatic Books reports that Auction Sale 98, closing
on November 17th, 2005, was very successful, with 84%
of the lots in the sale sold, bringing 110% of the total
of all of the estimates. Some sale highlights include:
a special leather-bound edition of Harold P. Newlin's
rare 1883 work on United States half dimes, perhaps the
author's own copy, selling @ $3,565 on a $3,000 estimate
[all results cited include the 15% buyer premium]; the
original Bowers and Ruddy contract establishing their
first auction firm sold for $747 on a $250 estimate;
Edward T. Newell's superb original set of Ernest
Babelon's monumental Traité des Monnaies Grecques et
Romaines saw spirited bidding, bringing $12,363 on a
$10,000 estimate; Gunter Kienast's personal annotated
copies of his two standard works on the medals of Karl
Goetz realized $1,150, having received two identical
high bids; an extensive series of notebooks, apparently
compiled by Bernard Hoidale from the 1950s to the 1980s,
recording half dime prices at auction and fixed price
was estimated at $250 and sold for $575; a remarkable
manuscript record of data on United States pattern coins
written in a copy of the Adams-Woodin work on the topic,
compiled by Walter Breen's early mentor, William Guild
sold for $2,070 on an estimate of $1,000; Gerson da
Cunha's rare 1884 work on Indo-Portuguese Numismatics,
annotated and extra-illustrated, saw spirited bidding
and ended up selling for $1,380 on a $300 estimate;
an extensive collection of Lyman Low auction sale
catalogues, estimated at $2,500, brought $3,450; plated
Chapman brother catalogues mostly sold substantially
over the estimates; Raphael's Thian's 1876 Confederate
Note Album ended up bringing $1,610 on a $350 estimate;
a fine selection of 19th century German coin dealer
Adolph Weyl's catalogues featuring American coins brought
strong prices; a fine example of Alföldi's extremely
rare work on Roman coins “A Festival of Isis,” sold for
$1,610 on a $750 estimate; and standard works on ancient
coins generally brought strong prices."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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