Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 159 6 Mar 2021
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British Sale Catalogues, 1929–1935, Priced & Named
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. THREE BOUND VOLUMES OF SALE CATALOGUES, 1929–1935. [Online description truncated: for the full description, listing all sales present, see the printed or PDF cataloge.] Thirty-four catalogues, bound in three volumes. Crown 4to, slightly later matching red half morocco; spines with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; original printed paper covers occasionally bound in. Bindings with minor signs of wear, but still attractive; occasional minor spotting. Near fine. More nicely bound volumes from the Leonard Forrer Library, bringing together 34 Sotheby's auction catalogues issued between 1929 and 1935, nearly all of them priced and named (either by hand or with a printed list), and with 23 of them including photographically printed plates. Significant sales here present include the Parsons sale of British and colonial coins, held for five days including Black Tuesday itself. The onset of the worldwide depression had a significant effect on the numismatic trade, as can be gleaned through these catalogues of the time. Other sales of note here present include: the extensive 1930 Wheeler sale of Anglo-Saxon and English coins, the extraordinary June 1930 sale of material from a "foreign collector," the two-part October 1931 Augustus Thellusson sale, the Thomas Whitcombe Greeene collection of Renaissance material (originally scheduled for October 1932, but postponed for a year: both versions of the catalogue are here present), the 1933 Morrieson collection, the March 1935 Christopher Corbally Browne sale, and the 1935 sale of the collection of Sir Kenyon Vaughan Morgan. A rare opportunity. Ex Leonard Forrer Library (Glendining & Co., April 30, 1954, part of lot 193).
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. THREE BOUND VOLUMES OF SALE CATALOGUES, 1929–1935. [Online description truncated: for the full description, listing all sales present, see the printed or PDF cataloge.] Thirty-four catalogues, bound in three volumes. Crown 4to, slightly later matching red half morocco; spines with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; original printed paper covers occasionally bound in. Bindings with minor signs of wear, but still attractive; occasional minor spotting. Near fine. More nicely bound volumes from the Leonard Forrer Library, bringing together 34 Sotheby's auction catalogues issued between 1929 and 1935, nearly all of them priced and named (either by hand or with a printed list), and with 23 of them including photographically printed plates. Significant sales here present include the Parsons sale of British and colonial coins, held for five days including Black Tuesday itself. The onset of the worldwide depression had a significant effect on the numismatic trade, as can be gleaned through these catalogues of the time. Other sales of note here present include: the extensive 1930 Wheeler sale of Anglo-Saxon and English coins, the extraordinary June 1930 sale of material from a "foreign collector," the two-part October 1931 Augustus Thellusson sale, the Thomas Whitcombe Greeene collection of Renaissance material (originally scheduled for October 1932, but postponed for a year: both versions of the catalogue are here present), the 1933 Morrieson collection, the March 1935 Christopher Corbally Browne sale, and the 1935 sale of the collection of Sir Kenyon Vaughan Morgan. A rare opportunity. Ex Leonard Forrer Library (Glendining & Co., April 30, 1954, part of lot 193).