John Adams Bolen’s Custom Collector Boards. Heavy cardboard and felt. Fine.

Five custom boards made by or for Bolen for his own personal collection of medals. Each board is 10 x 19.5 cm, with cutouts lined in white felt, and the backs of each similarly lined to protect the medals as the boards were stacked. The lid of a small box to contain the boards is present, but the inside is missing. Also present are two cloth liners. It is this set of boards that is seen in the frontispiece image of Bolen sitting as his desk in Neil Musante's The Medallic Works of John Adams Bolen, containing many of the medals offered in this sale. A most interesting piece of exonumismatic history!

From the E Pluribus Unum Collection. Earlier from the personal reference collection of John Adams Bolen.