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Auction 50-51  15 Oct 2020
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Lot 5010

Estimate: 150 GBP
Price realized: 3300 GBP
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Comber, Christopher H.; Carlyon-Britton, Raymond Carlyon [and B. A. Seaby Ltd]: Stock books for the extended sale of the Carlyon-Britton collection; seven foolscap carbon books, ruled and priced with every sale detailed, card covers, of necessity well thumbed, and a fascinating record; notebook of rubbings of Coins of Elizabeth (c.1949), a foolscap carbon book with records of the silver coinage, with many pencilled rubbings of coins throughout, an extraordinary working document for any student of the coins of Elizabeth I, card covers; with Comber's annotated photocopy, bound in brown buckram; Complete List of Elizabeth Silver, 1959, an album of all the Seaby listings cut and pasted by denomination, etc., bound in brown buckram, an unique record and of considerable use to Comber in his research, varied state, last in excellent condition (lot)
A lot of considerable use to any future student of the coinage of Elizabeth I. To judge by the Seaby numbering, which starts at 3195, the four stock books make an incomplete record, but for each number the R.C-B cost price, the Seaby asking and actual sale price is listed.
(300-400 GBP)
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