Kolbe & Fanning
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Walters I & Carlyon-Britton I
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. CATALOGUE OF THE IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF SAXON AND ENGLISH COINS, THE PROPERTY OF F.A. WALTERS, ESQ. London, 26–30 May 1913. (4), 124 pages; 680 lots; 16 very fine plates. [bound with] Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. THE CARLYON-BRITTON COLLECTION OF COINS. CATALOGUE OF THE BRITISH, ROMANO-BRITISH, ANGLO-SAXON AND NORMAN SERIES. FIRST PORTION. London, 17–21 November 1913. (4), 147, (1) pages; 783 lots; 19 very fine plates. Two catalogues, bound in one volume. Crown 4to, contemporary brown cloth-backed mottled boards; hand-lettered spine label. Fine. The Walters sale is Clain-Stefanelli 5740. The Carlyon-Britton collection was one of the most important of Anglo-Saxon and Norman coins ever sold at auction. Clain-Stefanelli 5200. Grierson 296: "Ouvrage de référence essentiel. Une des collections les plus importantes de ces séries." Manville & Robertson, page 219: "The most important collection offered in the English field [between 1910 and 1919] was by P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton of almost 2,000 lots of Ancient British through Norman coins-the latter series having been sold in the previous decade." Spring 808.
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. CATALOGUE OF THE IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF SAXON AND ENGLISH COINS, THE PROPERTY OF F.A. WALTERS, ESQ. London, 26–30 May 1913. (4), 124 pages; 680 lots; 16 very fine plates. [bound with] Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. THE CARLYON-BRITTON COLLECTION OF COINS. CATALOGUE OF THE BRITISH, ROMANO-BRITISH, ANGLO-SAXON AND NORMAN SERIES. FIRST PORTION. London, 17–21 November 1913. (4), 147, (1) pages; 783 lots; 19 very fine plates. Two catalogues, bound in one volume. Crown 4to, contemporary brown cloth-backed mottled boards; hand-lettered spine label. Fine. The Walters sale is Clain-Stefanelli 5740. The Carlyon-Britton collection was one of the most important of Anglo-Saxon and Norman coins ever sold at auction. Clain-Stefanelli 5200. Grierson 296: "Ouvrage de référence essentiel. Une des collections les plus importantes de ces séries." Manville & Robertson, page 219: "The most important collection offered in the English field [between 1910 and 1919] was by P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton of almost 2,000 lots of Ancient British through Norman coins-the latter series having been sold in the previous decade." Spring 808.