Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 159 6 Mar 2021
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The Most Important Sale of the 1820s, Priced & Named
Sotheby, Mr. A CATALOGUE OF A MOST CHOICE AND VALUABLE COLLECTION OF GREEK, ROMAN, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN COINS AND MEDALS, IN GOLD, SILVER, AND COPPER, THE PROPERTY OF A LATE HIGHLY RESPECTED AND EMINENT COLLECTOR... London, 6–22 July 1824. 8vo, later green cloth, gilt. (2), 125, iii pages; 1939 lots. Hand-priced in ink, with buyers' names recorded throughout. Very good. The Thomas Dimsdale collection. Manville & Robertson called this, "The most important sale of the decade." Matthew Young purchased the majority of American colonial coins in the sale, including lot 1821, a "Baltimore Penny... unique (from the Bindley Collection)" for £9.9.0. Richard Margolis has noted that the sale included the earliest appearance at auction that he was able to trace of a silver striking of Droz's essay for the 1791 French Monetary Competition. Ex William Till Library, with his 1834-dated bookplate engraved in the style of an 18th-century token, retained in the new binding; ex Château de Ramezay Library, Montreal, without identifying marks.
Sotheby, Mr. A CATALOGUE OF A MOST CHOICE AND VALUABLE COLLECTION OF GREEK, ROMAN, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN COINS AND MEDALS, IN GOLD, SILVER, AND COPPER, THE PROPERTY OF A LATE HIGHLY RESPECTED AND EMINENT COLLECTOR... London, 6–22 July 1824. 8vo, later green cloth, gilt. (2), 125, iii pages; 1939 lots. Hand-priced in ink, with buyers' names recorded throughout. Very good. The Thomas Dimsdale collection. Manville & Robertson called this, "The most important sale of the decade." Matthew Young purchased the majority of American colonial coins in the sale, including lot 1821, a "Baltimore Penny... unique (from the Bindley Collection)" for £9.9.0. Richard Margolis has noted that the sale included the earliest appearance at auction that he was able to trace of a silver striking of Droz's essay for the 1791 French Monetary Competition. Ex William Till Library, with his 1834-dated bookplate engraved in the style of an 18th-century token, retained in the new binding; ex Château de Ramezay Library, Montreal, without identifying marks.