Margolis Collection Photographs Annotated by Kraft
Margolis, Richard, and Raoul Kraft. MARGOLIS–KRAFT CORRESPONDENCE: PHOTOS OF ESSAIS AND COINS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 8vo, modern brown cloth, gilt. An album of 29 card stock leaves, on which have been mounted a total of 151 carefully trimmed black and white photographs depicting coins and essais of the French Revolution. Leaves have been annotated in French by Raoul Kraft. One photograph appears to have been lost (visible glue spot remaining). Else fine. According to Richard E. Margolis's typewritten introductory note: "Photos sent to Raoul Kraft of Geneva, Switzerland by R. Margolis of New York City, accompanying their correspondence on the numismatics of the French Revolution and Napoleon. Subsequently mounted and labeled by Mr. Kraft. [handwritten addition by Margolis: 'The descriptions don't always match the photo.'] With the exception of six uniface trial pieces in the collection of the American Numismatic Society, all photos are of specimens in the Margolis collection (including the piece at one time in the Kotzen collection)." Richard Margolis purchased Kraft's remaining collection of material relating to the French Revolution in October 1978, at which time the present mounted photographs were presumably returned to Margolis, who subsequently had them bound. For more information on the Kraft-Margolis correspondence, see the listings in this section under Kraft.