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Auction 160 22 May 2021
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Priced & Partly Named Wilson Sale I
Raymond, Wayte. THE IMPORTANT NUMISMATIC COLLECTION FORMED BY THE LATE W.W.C. WILSON, MONTREAL, CANADA. UNITED STATES & CANADIAN COINS, EARLY AMERICAN & CANADIAN HISTORICAL MEDALS, MEDALS PRESENTED TO NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN CHIEFS, FOREIGN COINS & MEDALS. New York: Anderson Galleries, November 16–18, 1925. 8vo, later red cloth, gilt. 92, (2) pages; 1260 lots; text illustrations. Heavily annotated throughout with prices realized and many buyers' names written in ink next to each lot. Very good or better. Adams 9 (rated A+ overall, and for early medals, U.S. medals and Canada in particular). Of immense importance for early North American medals and coins, with the first sale including nearly complete series of Franco-American jetons and Side-View tokens, and numerous individual rarities (the Tuesday Club medal, Happy While United medal, Washington peace medals, Quaker peace medal, Society of Tammany medal, gold Erie Canal medal, etc.). Other impressive content in the first sale includes a nearly complete collection of U.S. fractional currency and the Maris 64.5-r New Jersey copper (now termed 65.5-r and unique in private hands). It is one of the most important catalogues of North American material ever produced. This variant does not include the halftone plates (one single and one double) found in most copies of the regular edition. Davis 860.
Raymond, Wayte. THE IMPORTANT NUMISMATIC COLLECTION FORMED BY THE LATE W.W.C. WILSON, MONTREAL, CANADA. UNITED STATES & CANADIAN COINS, EARLY AMERICAN & CANADIAN HISTORICAL MEDALS, MEDALS PRESENTED TO NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN CHIEFS, FOREIGN COINS & MEDALS. New York: Anderson Galleries, November 16–18, 1925. 8vo, later red cloth, gilt. 92, (2) pages; 1260 lots; text illustrations. Heavily annotated throughout with prices realized and many buyers' names written in ink next to each lot. Very good or better. Adams 9 (rated A+ overall, and for early medals, U.S. medals and Canada in particular). Of immense importance for early North American medals and coins, with the first sale including nearly complete series of Franco-American jetons and Side-View tokens, and numerous individual rarities (the Tuesday Club medal, Happy While United medal, Washington peace medals, Quaker peace medal, Society of Tammany medal, gold Erie Canal medal, etc.). Other impressive content in the first sale includes a nearly complete collection of U.S. fractional currency and the Maris 64.5-r New Jersey copper (now termed 65.5-r and unique in private hands). It is one of the most important catalogues of North American material ever produced. This variant does not include the halftone plates (one single and one double) found in most copies of the regular edition. Davis 860.