Barnsley Collection Photographs

[Barnsley, Edward R.]. PHOTOGRAPHS OF CONNECTICUT COPPERS FROM THE COLLECTION OF NED BARNSLEY. Said to have been taken by Walter Breen around 1961 (see comments). Group of 115 black and white photographs, 3.5 by 5 inches, each depicting one side of a Connecticut copper. Occasional annotations on versos. Housed in a modern album, with notes laid in regarding the attribution of the pieces. Album a bit worn; photos fine. An interesting group of good-quality photographs of Connecticut coppers from one of the best collections of the mid-20th century. This group was sold as lot 3139 in Bowers & Merena’s 1995 sale of the Greenwald & Jackson collections, where cataloguer Frank Van Valen attributed them to Walter Breen and noted that the quality was unusually good for the period. The entire Barnsley collection is not photographed, and it is possible that the coins were ones being sold by Barnsley to another collector. An interesting group for provenance research.