Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 159 6 Mar 2021
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Extremely Rare 1907 Russian Coin Sale, with One Plate
Kopylov, B.F. АУКЦIОНЪ СОБРАНIЯ РУССКИХЪ МОНЕТЪ XIX СТОЛѢТIЯ. КОЛЛЕКЦIЯ, ПРИНАДЛЕЖАВШАЯ Г.Г. БЛАНКУ. ЧАСТЬ III. St. Petersburg: Нумизматическая Торговля Б.Ф. Копылова, 20 & 27 April 1907. 8vo, original printed paper covers. 31, (1) pages; 519 lots; 1 fine halftone plate depicting rare pattern coins, with tissue plate. Hand-priced in pencil. Covers taped at spine; old ink stamps. Good. The only copy we have ever handled of this very rare pre-Soviet Russian coin sale. All Russian numismatic auction catalogues from this period are rare; ones with prices are even more so. Plated Russian sale catalogues from this period are virtually unheard of. This was the third and final sale of G.G. Blank's important collection of 19th-century Russian coins, held at the Imperial Society for Preservation of the Arts. Ex Leonidas C. Hermes Library, with his label; ex Kolbe Sale 72, lot 1156.
Kopylov, B.F. АУКЦIОНЪ СОБРАНIЯ РУССКИХЪ МОНЕТЪ XIX СТОЛѢТIЯ. КОЛЛЕКЦIЯ, ПРИНАДЛЕЖАВШАЯ Г.Г. БЛАНКУ. ЧАСТЬ III. St. Petersburg: Нумизматическая Торговля Б.Ф. Копылова, 20 & 27 April 1907. 8vo, original printed paper covers. 31, (1) pages; 519 lots; 1 fine halftone plate depicting rare pattern coins, with tissue plate. Hand-priced in pencil. Covers taped at spine; old ink stamps. Good. The only copy we have ever handled of this very rare pre-Soviet Russian coin sale. All Russian numismatic auction catalogues from this period are rare; ones with prices are even more so. Plated Russian sale catalogues from this period are virtually unheard of. This was the third and final sale of G.G. Blank's important collection of 19th-century Russian coins, held at the Imperial Society for Preservation of the Arts. Ex Leonidas C. Hermes Library, with his label; ex Kolbe Sale 72, lot 1156.