KOLBE & FANNING SALE 147 RESULTS

The October 7 sale of material from the libraries of William A. Burd and Q. David Bowers, held by Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers, was a resounding success, with particularly strong activity seen in the American part of the sale. Some highlights included:

Lot 413, John J. Ford’s own bound set of New Netherlands Coin Company sales, brought $1400 on a $750 estimate (all results are hammer prices without premium added)

Lot 287, a bound volume of twenty early Bangs sales, from the Fuld, Bass and Bowers libraries, sold for $1100 on a $500 estimate

Lot 309, a plated example of the very scarce S.H. & H. Chapman sale of the Dohrmann mineral collection, sold for $950 on a $250 estimate

Lot 355, a bound volume from the Virgil Brand library consisting of thirteen auction catalogues from 1874 and a letter from John W. Haseltine, brought $850 against a $300 estimate

Lot 298, a copy of the deluxe presentation edition of the Bowers & Merena Norweb sales, from the library of Q. David Bowers, brought $800 on a $500 estimate

Lot 486, a first edition Blue Book, signed by editor R.S. Yeoman, brought $750 on a $100 estimate

Lot 428, a bound volume including 28 Scott & Company auction catalogues, sold for $700 on a $300 estimate

Lot 363, an unlisted copy of Heath’s popular counterfeit detector, sold for $650 on a $200 estimate

Lot 468, a priced copy of the Joseph J. Mickey sale held by W. Elliot Woodward in 1867, in a contemporary binding, received bids from many parties and brought $650 on a $200 estimate

Lot 279, a copy of the rare first membership list of the American Numismatic Association (1908) brought $550 on a $200 estimate.

While U.S. material dominated this sale, it included some nice material on foreign and ancient coins, with four volumes of Mitchiner’s work on jetons bringing $550 on a $250 estimate, A.M. Tracy Woodward’s work on The Minted Ten-Cash Coins of China bringing $450 on a $250 estimate, a nice first edition copy of Head’s Historia Numorum bringing $275 on a $100 estimate, and Støren and Holst’s rare work on the medals of Ivar Throndsen bringing $275 on a $100 estimate.

Our next auction will be our annual New York Book Auction held in conjunction with the New York International Numismatic Convention on Saturday, January 13. Held in Empire State Ballroom I of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, beginning at 12:30 pm, the auction will include the highlights of the comprehensive library formed by Chicago numismatist William A. Burd, among other properties, and promises to be an exceptional sale. In the meantime, we plan to hold an online “Buy or Bid Sale” in the next couple months and hope to issue a new fixed-price PDF catalogue as well, so stay tuned for more announcements! Our website is numislit.com .

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