NEWMAN PORTAL DIGITIZES BARNEY BLUESTONE SALES

The Barney Bluestone auction sale catalog series, running from 1931 to 1950, consists of 109 numbered sales, plus eight additional catalogs presenting the Albert Grinnell paper money collection (1944 - 1947). These have been scanned from the ANS library, with Dan Hamelberg filling in gaps. Bluestone primarily handled U.S. material, with the Grinnell sales being the obvious highlight of his career.

A sample search on “German National Bank, Covington” reveals paper money specimens issued by this Kentucky bank in the 1870s, from the Grinnell collection, along with search results from the Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of Finances. This is only one of thousands of such banks, but, with a large mass of digitized material, the odds of finding data on any particular institution are greatly increased.

Link to Barney Bluestone catalogs on NNP:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctioncompanydetail/17

Wayne Homren, Editor

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