NBS BENEFIT SALE AT ANA CONVENTION

George writes:

The following items will be sold at the General Meeting of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society to be held at the American Numismatic Association Convention in Anaheim, California on Friday, August 12th, 2016. All items will be sold to the highest bidder and absentee bids are welcome. If you are unable to attend the meeting, please email your bids to NBS President Marc Ricard: mcricard@yahoo.com. All proceeds will benefit NBS.

1. NINE COIN AUCTION SALE CATALOGUES ISSUED BY THE CHAPMAN BROTHERS. 1880–1906. Adams/Gengerke Sale Numbers 2, 29, 43, 62, 64, 67, 70, 79, & 83. Original paper covers. An interesting selection of small format catalogues, generally in very good or better condition (sale 79 covers worn). Sales 70 & 79 are handpriced. Important catalogues present include 1880 Samuel Bispham sale [Adams B+]; June 1889 sale [A-]; 1894 Isaac Wood Medals sale [A-]; 1901 Wilcox sale [A]; and 1906 Harlan P. Smith Duplicates sale [B]. Also included is the reprint of S. H. Chapman’s famous Alvord Collection of Half Cents.
Donated by Len Augsburger.

2. SPECIAL EDITION OF THE CELEBRATED JOHN W. ADAMS COLLECTION OF UNITED STATES LARGE CENTS OF THE YEAR 1794. 1982 Bowers and Ruddy catalogue. Original cloth. Near new. No. 139 of 256 copies, with 2 photographic plates of cents in color.
Donated by Dan Hamelberg.

3. SPECIAL EDITION OF PART I OF THE DAN HOLMES COLLECTION OF EARLY DATE LARGE CENTS. 2009 Goldberg catalogue. Original binding, color dust jacket. Near new. The most complete collection ever formed.
Donated by Dan Hamelberg.

4. LIMITED EDITION PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATE BOOK OF THE 1987 FREDERICK B. TAYLOR COLLECTION OF STATE COPPER COINAGE 1785–1788. Bowers and Merena. Original binding. As new. No. 93 of 182 copies. An excellent photographic record of this remarkable collection.
Donated by Dan Hamelberg.

5. JACK COLLINS AND WALTER BREEN’S HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE FIRST 1794 UNITED STATES DOLLAR. 2007. Spiral-bound as issued. Near new. Limited edition: one of only 99 copies issued of a groundbreaking work.
Donated by Dan Hamelberg.

6. CATALOGUE OF THE JOHN STORY JENKS COLLECTION OF COINS. Henry Chapman, 1921. Sturdily bound in later white cloth, accompanied by a set of reprint plates, prices realized list bound in, intermittently annotated in pencil, including prices and bidder’s initials or names (BMM, SHC, Blair, BGJ, RK, Gill, Dietz, HC, et al). Very good/near fine.
Donated by Dan Hamelberg.

7. TWO RARELY ENCOUNTERED WAYTE RAYMOND FIXED PRICE LISTS FEATURING UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COINS. Circa 1915 and 1921. Self-covered as issued. Good or better copies.
Donated by Dan Hamelberg.

8. RARE ORIGINAL 1803 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE MINT. 13th January, 1804. Signed in type by President Th. Jefferson, Mint Director Elias Boudinot, and Mint Treasurer Benjamin Rush. Ex Tennessee Historical Society (withdrawn). Title leaf comprising pages 1–2; transmittal leaf from the President comprising pages 3–4; pages 5–6 apparently missing; pages 7–8 comprising Boudinot’s Report to the President; large folding Abstract No. 1 (approx. 15 by 10 inches, comprised of 2 sheets); page 12, verso blank, comprising Abstract No. 2; pages 14–17, final verso blank, comprising Statement No. 3; blank leaf at end. Once bound, mostly loose. Good/very good, apart from apparently being slightly incomplete.
Donated by Dan Hamelberg.

9. FIVE EARLY 20TH CENTURY FIXED PRICE LISTS OR PREMIUM GUIDES.

• Arnold Numismatic Co. Numismatic Guide. 12th Edition. 1914.
• Barney Bluestone/Salt City Coin Co. United States and Canadian Coins. Circa 1935
• Bob Cohen. The Cohen Coin Book. 4th Edition. Circa 1935.
• Overton Coin & Stamp Co. Price List. No. 5. 1949.
• Norman Shultz. Fixed Price List. No. 12. Circa mid-1930s.

All small format, original card covers. Good to fine.
Donated by Dan Hamelberg.

10. THOMAS JEFFERSON’S 1790 REPORT RESPECTING COINS, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES. In The American Museum, Or, Universal Magazine. Philadelphia, September & December, 1790. Pages (97)–144; (245)–288; 40; 80; 20; 20; 48. Disbound, housed in a modern black cloth clamshell box, upper cover and back lettered in gilt. Secretary of State Jefferson’s densely printed Report, including tables, comprises pages 36–46 in Appendix II. Public Papers. The following 2 pages comprise a Speech of his excellency the president of the united states, featuring George Washington’s comment in his first State of the Union Address that “Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the united states, is an object of great importance.” An early printing of Thomas Jefferson’s consequential report on Coins. Also present here is a 2015 antiquarian bookseller’s printout offering another example of Jefferson’s American Museum report, priced at $1500.
Donated by Dan Hamelberg.

11. AN ORIGINAL “INVASION OF LOUISVILLE” VIDEO. One of only eleven VHS tapes commissioned by Armand Champa, the example at hand being Copy No. 8 sent to George Kolbe. Recorded in ink on the cardboard slipcase are the names of 7 recipients (the first three were retained by Champa and the last one was not assigned). Approximately one hour in length, the color video documents a visit by numismatic bibliophiles to the Champa library during the 1988 American Numismatic Association. Some 45 bibliophiles attended, a great many depicted here “in action,” including John Burns, Del Bland, Armand & Kay Champa, John J. Ford, Jr., Alan Grace, Carling Gresham, George Fuld, Frank Katen, George Kolbe, Ken Lowe, and Jules Reiver, to name but a few. Also included is a DVD of the recording, a trailer of which can be viewed at https://youtu.be/Bjpjbz3u0o0.
Donated by George Kolbe.

12. JAMES KELLY’S COINS AND CHATTER. AUCTION SALE NOS. 1-8. 1952–1953. The first eight numbered “Coins and Chatter” sales. Seldom encountered and incompletely recorded by Gengerke:
Donated by George Kolbe.

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