MORE HOLABIRD AUGUST 2020 SALE SELECTIONS

Lot 3260: Carnival & Peace Jubilee So Called Dime (121370)

Obv.: Denver Carnival / Oct. 4-6 / 1898 / & Peace Jubilee; Rev.: pictorial two miners. Br., rd., 18 mm.

Date: 1898
State: Colorado
City: Denver
Provenance: Benjamin Fauver Collection

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Carnival & Peace Jubilee So Called Dime (121370) (https://holabirdamericana.liveauctiongroup.com/Carnival-Peace-Jubilee-So-Called-Dime-121370_i38149288)

Lot 3243: Antebellum Letter to the San Francisco Mint

Two pp. letter sent September 28, 1859 from Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury, to Snyder, Treasurer of the San Francisco Mint. Howell Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and Speaker of the House from 1849 to 1851; he also served as the 40th Governor of Georgia (1851–1853) and as a Secretary of the Treasury under President James Buchanan (1857–1860), the job he is writing this letter while working. He is probably best known as one of the founders of the Confederacy, having served as the President of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. William T. Sherman called him "one of the leading rebels of the South." Letter refers to an inquiry from the mint superintendent about expenses of the mint under appropriations. In Cobb's response, he seems to be cautioning the treasurer about how money has been used to pay wages for the officers and workmen. Just a year later, Cobb would join the secession movement. 7.5 x 9.5" Folds with a few tears.

Provenance: Fred Holabird Collection

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1859 Letter to SF Mint from Howell Cobb (Founder of the Confederacy) (113621) (https://holabirdamericana.liveauctiongroup.com/1859-Letter-to-SF-Mint-from-Howell-Cobb-Founder-of-the-Confederacy-113621_i38149271)

Lot 3245: San Francisco Mint Employment Correspondence

Lot of 7. US Grant served from 1869-1877. 1) Dec. 1872 letter addressed to President US Grant. Letter from Martha G. Grant (no relation?) discusses her niece Jane Hudson Waddell, living in Santa Cruz, who would like to work for the San Francisco Mint. She asked the director there but he said she would need appointment by the president. Comes with Executive Mansion cover that has hand-written message to Treasury Dept., Jan. 9th, 1873, recommending applicant. 2) 1869 letter written from Lydia Gardner of San Francisco, addressed to "Mr. President." Message reminds President Grant that he knows her from the 4th Infantry. Her husband has died, and she has heard "There is a number of women who perhaps have not the claim that a soldiers daughter has employed in the Branch Mint...and I would like to be employed there." Back of letter had message written from the Executive Mansion by a secretary referring Lydia Gardner to General La Grange. "The president remembers the writer as a very estimable person who accompanied the 4th Infantry to the Pacific Coast when he was attached to it." 3) Three pieces of correspondence and a cover. December 1864 letter from Heth asking for a job for his sister, Fannie. Addressed to "General." Dec. 1864 letter from Treasury Department acknowledging the letter had been received and referred to the Mint Supt. Finally, a Jan. 1865 letter from Heth to the Supt. of the SF Mint about the previous letters and recommendation from the President.

Provenance: Fred Holabird Collection

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San Francisco Mint-Related Correspondence to President Ulysses S. Grant (113619) (https://holabirdamericana.liveauctiongroup.com/San-Francisco-Mint-Related-Correspondence-to-President-Ulysses-S-Grant-113619_i38149273)

Lot 3251: Philadelphia Mint Bullion Scale

Very fine 500 troy ounce bullion scale made by Trommner of Philadelphia for the US Mint. SN 10-57-13, CAD 084500, Model 751. Blue paint on base as original. Approximately 50" long, 3.5' high, 14" deep. This is a bullion scale made for the US Mint, perhaps within ten or twenty years of the demonetization of silver in 1964. This is a historic rarity in any form, and a great display piece for any museum, major numismatic collection, or mining office.

Provenance: Fred Holabird Collection

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Trommner 500-Ounce Bullion Scale, Philadelphia Mint (82912) (https://holabirdamericana.liveauctiongroup.com/Trommner-500-Ounce-Bullion-Scale-Philadelphia-Mint-82912_i38149279)

Lot 3435: D. K. Nichols Masonic Trade Token

This is the first time to our knowledge of a public auction of the ultra rare Masonic trade token. D. K. Nichols/Masonic/Cal.// GF/ 12 1/2c/ IT. Rd, br, quater size. Masonic was a tiny mining camp near Bodie, Calif. , between Bridgeport and Bodie. The district was reportedly discovered in the 1860's and died out just after this token was made for Nichols.

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Masonic, Cal. Trade Token, Ex Rare, Nichols (121661) (https://holabirdamericana.liveauctiongroup.com/Masonic-Cal-Trade-Token-Ex-Rare-Nichols-121661_i38149464)

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
HOLABIRD AUGUST 2020 SALE SELECTIONS (https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n33a23.html)

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