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All Three Carlyon-Britton Sales, Priced & Named
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. THE CARLYON-BRITTON COLLECTION OF COINS. CATALOGUE OF THE BRITISH, ROMANO-BRITISH, ANGLO-SAXON AND NORMAN SERIES. FIRST, SECOND & THIRD PORTIONS. London, 17–21 November 1913; 20–24 November 1916; and 11–13 November 1918. Three parts complete, bound in one volume. Crown 4to, contemporary red half morocco; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; original printed paper covers bound in. 362 pages plus preliminaries; 1975 lots; 41 very fine plates. Hand-priced and named throughout. Fine. A lovely set of one of the most important collections of Anglo-Saxon and Norman coins ever sold at auction. Rarely offered complete. Clain-Stefanelli 5200. Grierson 296: "Ouvrage de référence essentiel. Une des collections les plus importantes de ces séries." Manville & Robertson, page 219: "The most important collection offered in the English field [between 1910 and 1919] was by P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton of almost 2,000 lots of Ancient British through Norman coins-the latter series having been sold in the previous decade." Spring 808 (Part I). Ex Leonard Forrer Library (Glendining & Co., April 30, 1954, part of lot 191).
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. THE CARLYON-BRITTON COLLECTION OF COINS. CATALOGUE OF THE BRITISH, ROMANO-BRITISH, ANGLO-SAXON AND NORMAN SERIES. FIRST, SECOND & THIRD PORTIONS. London, 17–21 November 1913; 20–24 November 1916; and 11–13 November 1918. Three parts complete, bound in one volume. Crown 4to, contemporary red half morocco; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; original printed paper covers bound in. 362 pages plus preliminaries; 1975 lots; 41 very fine plates. Hand-priced and named throughout. Fine. A lovely set of one of the most important collections of Anglo-Saxon and Norman coins ever sold at auction. Rarely offered complete. Clain-Stefanelli 5200. Grierson 296: "Ouvrage de référence essentiel. Une des collections les plus importantes de ces séries." Manville & Robertson, page 219: "The most important collection offered in the English field [between 1910 and 1919] was by P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton of almost 2,000 lots of Ancient British through Norman coins-the latter series having been sold in the previous decade." Spring 808 (Part I). Ex Leonard Forrer Library (Glendining & Co., April 30, 1954, part of lot 191).