Kolbe & Fanning
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Helbing Sales Featuring Ancient Coins
Helbing Nachf, Otto. AUCTION CATALOGUES FEATURING ANCIENT COINS. Includes the following: 12. April 1927 und folgende Tage. Sammlung Prof H., etc. 64 plates, not all ancient. 24. Oktober 1927 und folgende Tage. Sammlung Hofrat Hermann, etc. 80 plates, not all ancient. 20. März 1928 und folgende Tage. Sammlungen Guttler, et al. Ancient section hand-priced. 58 plates, not all ancient. 8. November 1928 und folgende Tage. Lloyd Greek Duplicates. 31 plates of ancient coins numbered 45–75. 31. Januar 1930 und folgende Tage. Antike Münzen. 28 plates. 9. Dezember 1932. Antike Münzen. 29 plates. 22. April 1941 und folgende Tage. Hans Benno Arnold Kohlmann. Bound. Prices realized list laid in. 32 plates, only 3 of them ancients. Seven catalogues. 4to, all but last in original printed card covers (last in brown cloth). Generally very good. Includes some noteworthy sale catalogues. Spring lists the first six as his numbers 294–297, 299 and 301. The final sale has only a few plates devoted to ancient coins, but it is important for being an illustrated wartime catalogue issued while the Helbing firm was being directed by Karl Kress, who was personally involved in the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, a Nazi Party organization tasked with the disposition of property stolen from Jews and other victims of the Nazi regime. Kress was taken as a prisoner of war and investigated for war crimes by the U.S. Army Office of Strategic Services' Art Looting Investigation Unit.
Helbing Nachf, Otto. AUCTION CATALOGUES FEATURING ANCIENT COINS. Includes the following: 12. April 1927 und folgende Tage. Sammlung Prof H., etc. 64 plates, not all ancient. 24. Oktober 1927 und folgende Tage. Sammlung Hofrat Hermann, etc. 80 plates, not all ancient. 20. März 1928 und folgende Tage. Sammlungen Guttler, et al. Ancient section hand-priced. 58 plates, not all ancient. 8. November 1928 und folgende Tage. Lloyd Greek Duplicates. 31 plates of ancient coins numbered 45–75. 31. Januar 1930 und folgende Tage. Antike Münzen. 28 plates. 9. Dezember 1932. Antike Münzen. 29 plates. 22. April 1941 und folgende Tage. Hans Benno Arnold Kohlmann. Bound. Prices realized list laid in. 32 plates, only 3 of them ancients. Seven catalogues. 4to, all but last in original printed card covers (last in brown cloth). Generally very good. Includes some noteworthy sale catalogues. Spring lists the first six as his numbers 294–297, 299 and 301. The final sale has only a few plates devoted to ancient coins, but it is important for being an illustrated wartime catalogue issued while the Helbing firm was being directed by Karl Kress, who was personally involved in the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, a Nazi Party organization tasked with the disposition of property stolen from Jews and other victims of the Nazi regime. Kress was taken as a prisoner of war and investigated for war crimes by the U.S. Army Office of Strategic Services' Art Looting Investigation Unit.