MISSING MANCHESTER MUSEUM COIN REGISTER SOUGHT

Please may I make an appeal about a missing accession register from our Numismatic collection at Manchester Museum? I am trying to trace the first volume of the accession register for the William Sharp Ogden coin catalogue. This has been missing from our Numismatics department at Manchester Museum for many years (since before the 1970s) and I wish to make an appeal to readers of the newsletter in the hope that someone might have seen it in a collection somewhere. It may look something like the second volume that we still have in the collection. As it had 2,950 coin record entries, it represents a very important piece of documentation for our coin collection, and it would be wonderful to find out what happened to it.

William Sharp Ogden (1844-1926) was a Manchester architect who seems to have designed few buildings that have survived to the present day [for a list see Girouard (Town and Country New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1992, p.99) who dismisses his published design work rather sniffily]. Sharp Ogden served on the Manchester Museum Committee and collected coins and stone artefacts and other archaeological material. His important art collection was presented to the Whitworth Art Gallery. He died in London in 1926.

Please contact Brian Sitch with any information at Bryan.Sitch@manchester.ac.uk

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