MORE ON DAVID ULYSSES PROSKEY (1853-1928)

The first great collection catalogued by Proskey was of the Robert Coulton Davis Collection auctioned from January 20-24, 1890. [Davis 783] This was followed six months later June 25-27, 1890, with that of Lorin Gilbert Parmelee, the Boston Baked Bean Baron. [Davis 784]. A third noteworthy catalogue was produced nearly two years later for the sale of the collection of George Woodside on April 23, 1892. [Davis 785].

David Proskey and his brothers company known as the "Proskey Brothers" earlier established in the lumber business now became noted as hoteliers in the newly established summer resort in the 1880's with the Breslin Hotel at Lake Hopatcong, Sussex County, New Jersey. Though known as the "Proskey Brothers" the company also included their sister Margueritta Alexander Proskey. By September 1900 the New York Tribune, Thursday, September 27, on page 8, reported that they expanded their hotel business by leasing the Parker House at Broadway and 39th Street, New York City.

Proskey's name appeared in the March 1892 issue of The Numismatist, in list no. 15, as number 437, residing at 853 Broadway, New York. This is the same address as the New York Coin & Stamp Co., and also of the coin dealer Samuel Proskey, David's ten year younger brother, whose name appears in August 1908 issue of The Numismatist, on page 237.

In 1892, he sold a portion of his stamp collection through Scott Stamp & Coin Company, Limited, Sale No. 113, May 4-5, 1892, David Proskey philatelic collection of U. S. Envelopes, Locals, and Confederate stamps.

In the January 1895 issue of The Numismatist, Augustus G. Heaton's Tour Among the Coin Dealers, tells of a visit to the New York Coin and Stamp Company, reporting that on Union Square a large room in the second floor of an imposing building was the office, managed by forty-one year old David Proskey, who was noted as being "still a young man but one of the best numismatic judges of coins in the trade, and very just in valuation." Proskey ran the business, employing his brother Samuel Proskey to assist preparing auction catalogues and in the day-today retail stock of coins, stamps, fractional currency, minerals, curiosities, and other antiquities.

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MORE ON DAVID ULYSSES PROSKEY (1853-1928) (https://www.coinbooks.org/v24/esylum_v24n19a18.html)
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