Kolbe & Fanning

Auction 163  –  30 April 2022

Kolbe & Fanning, Auction 163

Sydney F. Martin Numismatic Library

Sa, 30.04.2022, from 6:00 PM CEST
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Description

The Richard Winsor Catalogue, with Plates

Chapman, S.H. & H. CATALOGUE OF THE MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF COINS OF THE UNITED STATES FORMED BY THE LATE RICHARD B. WINSOR, ESQ., PROVIDENCE, R.I. Philadelphia: Davis & Harvey, December 16–17, 1895. 4to, later white cloth; spine ruled and lettered in gilt. (2), 93, (1) pages; 1353 lots; 10 very fine tinted photographic plates with tissue guards; prices realized list bound in. Light staining to lower fore-edge corner, affecting both text and plates. Very good or so. Adams 47. An important sale, rated A by Adams: “Carolina elephant ?¢. 3 Granby varieties. Silver center 1¢. Gem silver. Clover leaf 1¢, superb copper. AU 1822 10¢.” An important collection of American colonial, silver and copper coins. Occasionally encountered incomplete, perhaps attributable to anomalies in the plate numbering: the “V” on Plate V appears never to have been printed (it was added on most copies by hand as here), and Plate IV was printed “Plate V” (usually corrected by entering an “I” in ink between “Plate” and “V” as here). The “correct” Plate V, depicting dimes and half dimes, appears to be the plate most often missing, suggesting that it may not have initially been sent out with at least some of the pre-sale plated copies. This copy is complete, with all ten plates. The significance of the collection is well stated in the preface: “Mr. Winsor was one of the first of American collectors and a most liberal purchaser both at private and public sale. Always a fastidious buyer, and if the specimen offered did not meet his views of superior preservation it was most surely to be rejected. When the collector of to-day contemplates that he has offered in this sale for his purchase by public auction the result of some twenty-five years of collecting on the lines indicated by the above statements, he can readily appreciate what an extraordinary opportunity is here presented.” The first two plates depict, respectively, silver and copper American colonial coins and other early issues; plates three, four and five illustrate rare American silver coins from dollars to half dimes; four of the five remaining plates depict Winsor’s collection of choice large cents; and the final plate is devoted entirely to half cents. Davis 190. Ex Kolbe Sale 104, lot 986; ex Cal Wilson’s Sale 5, lot 167.

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Price realized 400 USD
Starting price 400 USD
Estimate 600 USD
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