Kolbe & Fanning
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File on Patterns from the Wayte Raymond Library
Adams, Edgar H., et al. FILE FOLDER OF MOUNTED PAGES FROM THE ADAMS-WOODIN BOOK, FROM WAYTE RAYMOND'S LIBRARY, INTEGRATING NOTES BY EDGAR H. ADAMS, WITH ADDITIONAL MATERIAL ON THE NEWCOMER COLLECTION, A LETTER BY LENOX R. LOHR, ETC. Materials loosely assembled as described in the comments. Generally very good. A unique and most interesting assemblage, including: the relevant pages, and title, from Adams & Woodin's 1913 United States Pattern, Trial, and Experimental Pieces, pasted to 8.5 by 11 inch blank sheets, holed for a three-ring binder, featuring ink check marks throughout which, according to John Ford, appear to record specimens in the collection of Waldo Newcomer. There are also extensive ink additions on the blank sheets and sometimes in the text, comprising additions and corrections. A few examples follow of what are certainly notes made by Edgar Adams: "17A. Eagle 1795. Reg. Dies. Small planchet. Copper, only one specimen known"; "struck outside of mint" written after Nos. 27 & 28, which have been lined through; "Both out. Not struck at mint" written after Nos. 29 & 30; following 1848 Quarter Eagle, 1848: "Have classified my spec. under Territorial coins of California"; "193A. Eagle, slightly dif. Die, platinum"; and 827, "struck on five-cent planchet." Present as well are 5 typewritten sheets formatted in typical Adams style, with 16 photographs of coins cut to size and mounted preceding the descriptions, listing thirty-one 1838 & 1839 half dollar pieces, a few with notes such as "Does not exist" or "I have never seen..." Also present are added typescript pages listing Nos. 451–454, 454A, 455–457, & 457A–F, and pages reordering Nos. 480–85, and 508–527. There are also three pages of typescript listing twenty-five 1867 nickels, thirteen of which are accompanied by photographs, and another page listing Nos. 684–698A, with photographs of No. 687. Wayte Raymond's handwritten listing of minor patterns, annotated in pencil, on over a dozen sheets is accompanied by a typewritten September 25, 1946 letter from Lenox R. Lohr, signed, on Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago stationery (Lohr is listed as President), to Wayte Raymond, reading in part: "I am returning herewith your check list of pattern nickels with pencil notations as suggested by comparison with my own collection... Some of the very distinctive patterns were apparently omitted from your list. I have listed them on the attached sheet [also present here] ... If you come into possession of any patterns, trials, or die strikes, I wish you would send them on to me for inspection." Ex John J. Ford, Jr. Library (Kolbe Sale 93, lot 125 at $1600 hammer); ex John Dannreuther Library.
Adams, Edgar H., et al. FILE FOLDER OF MOUNTED PAGES FROM THE ADAMS-WOODIN BOOK, FROM WAYTE RAYMOND'S LIBRARY, INTEGRATING NOTES BY EDGAR H. ADAMS, WITH ADDITIONAL MATERIAL ON THE NEWCOMER COLLECTION, A LETTER BY LENOX R. LOHR, ETC. Materials loosely assembled as described in the comments. Generally very good. A unique and most interesting assemblage, including: the relevant pages, and title, from Adams & Woodin's 1913 United States Pattern, Trial, and Experimental Pieces, pasted to 8.5 by 11 inch blank sheets, holed for a three-ring binder, featuring ink check marks throughout which, according to John Ford, appear to record specimens in the collection of Waldo Newcomer. There are also extensive ink additions on the blank sheets and sometimes in the text, comprising additions and corrections. A few examples follow of what are certainly notes made by Edgar Adams: "17A. Eagle 1795. Reg. Dies. Small planchet. Copper, only one specimen known"; "struck outside of mint" written after Nos. 27 & 28, which have been lined through; "Both out. Not struck at mint" written after Nos. 29 & 30; following 1848 Quarter Eagle, 1848: "Have classified my spec. under Territorial coins of California"; "193A. Eagle, slightly dif. Die, platinum"; and 827, "struck on five-cent planchet." Present as well are 5 typewritten sheets formatted in typical Adams style, with 16 photographs of coins cut to size and mounted preceding the descriptions, listing thirty-one 1838 & 1839 half dollar pieces, a few with notes such as "Does not exist" or "I have never seen..." Also present are added typescript pages listing Nos. 451–454, 454A, 455–457, & 457A–F, and pages reordering Nos. 480–85, and 508–527. There are also three pages of typescript listing twenty-five 1867 nickels, thirteen of which are accompanied by photographs, and another page listing Nos. 684–698A, with photographs of No. 687. Wayte Raymond's handwritten listing of minor patterns, annotated in pencil, on over a dozen sheets is accompanied by a typewritten September 25, 1946 letter from Lenox R. Lohr, signed, on Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago stationery (Lohr is listed as President), to Wayte Raymond, reading in part: "I am returning herewith your check list of pattern nickels with pencil notations as suggested by comparison with my own collection... Some of the very distinctive patterns were apparently omitted from your list. I have listed them on the attached sheet [also present here] ... If you come into possession of any patterns, trials, or die strikes, I wish you would send them on to me for inspection." Ex John J. Ford, Jr. Library (Kolbe Sale 93, lot 125 at $1600 hammer); ex John Dannreuther Library.