Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 160 22 May 2021
View prices realized
► Sale information
Find similar lots
Priced & Named 1855 Flandin Sale
Bangs, Brother & Co. CATALOGUE OF A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN COINS AND MEDALS, IN GOLD, SILVER, COPPER AND BRONZE. New York, June 6, 1855. 8vo, original printed cream-colored paper covers. 14, (2) pages; 230 + 1 lots (added lot: "a number of American Genls. and Commanders vc, 10 pieces," written in ink at the end), priced in black with buyers' names throughout. Back cover a trifle discolored. Near fine. Adams 1 for the Bangs series. One of the earliest significant U.S. numismatic auction sales, the Peter Flandin collection was the first entirely numismatic auction to be held in New York City, and is the earliest catalogue included in John W. Adams's United States Numismatic Literature. The cataloguer of the sale is unknown and is a matter of some dispute, with Gengerke and Adams having attributed it to Augustus B. Sage in the past, but Q. David Bowers making a good case against this (as Sage would have been too young to have catalogued it) and suggesting Charles I. Bushnell as a possibility. Flandin (whose actual first name was Pierre, according to Pete Smith) was a collector as early as 1822. His collection consisted mostly of ancient and European coins, but did contain some early American coins and Washington material, as well as federal coins including a proof 1850 dollar. Total proceeds for the sale were $733.52. A scarce catalogue, especially priced and named. Flandin appears to have bought back a number of lots. While household names like Bushnell and Chilton are recorded after a number of lots, none of the dealers who burst upon the scene in the following decade appear to have attended the sale, and most of the other participants (Gsell, Carlisle, Burtis, Borg, Reiley, Creighton, Boardman, et al.) appear to have been of an earlier generation, and are little known today. Attinelli 10. Ex John J. Ford, Jr. Library (Kolbe Sale 93, lot 164); ex John Dannreuther Library.
Bangs, Brother & Co. CATALOGUE OF A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN COINS AND MEDALS, IN GOLD, SILVER, COPPER AND BRONZE. New York, June 6, 1855. 8vo, original printed cream-colored paper covers. 14, (2) pages; 230 + 1 lots (added lot: "a number of American Genls. and Commanders vc, 10 pieces," written in ink at the end), priced in black with buyers' names throughout. Back cover a trifle discolored. Near fine. Adams 1 for the Bangs series. One of the earliest significant U.S. numismatic auction sales, the Peter Flandin collection was the first entirely numismatic auction to be held in New York City, and is the earliest catalogue included in John W. Adams's United States Numismatic Literature. The cataloguer of the sale is unknown and is a matter of some dispute, with Gengerke and Adams having attributed it to Augustus B. Sage in the past, but Q. David Bowers making a good case against this (as Sage would have been too young to have catalogued it) and suggesting Charles I. Bushnell as a possibility. Flandin (whose actual first name was Pierre, according to Pete Smith) was a collector as early as 1822. His collection consisted mostly of ancient and European coins, but did contain some early American coins and Washington material, as well as federal coins including a proof 1850 dollar. Total proceeds for the sale were $733.52. A scarce catalogue, especially priced and named. Flandin appears to have bought back a number of lots. While household names like Bushnell and Chilton are recorded after a number of lots, none of the dealers who burst upon the scene in the following decade appear to have attended the sale, and most of the other participants (Gsell, Carlisle, Burtis, Borg, Reiley, Creighton, Boardman, et al.) appear to have been of an earlier generation, and are little known today. Attinelli 10. Ex John J. Ford, Jr. Library (Kolbe Sale 93, lot 164); ex John Dannreuther Library.