Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 162 22 Jan 2022
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The Early Lyman Low Auctions
Low, Lyman H. NUMISMATIC AUCTION CATALOGUES. Ten catalogues, dated: February 4–5, 1885; June 10–11, 1885; June 18, 1885; January 30, 1886; June 3, 1886; September 20, 1886; November 29–30, 1886; May 9, 1887; June 27, 1887; and June 28, 1887. All 8vo, original printed paper covers. Final (Linderman) sale with newspaper clipping about the upcoming sale affixed with a pin to the title page. Condition ranges from good to fine, with a few detached but present covers. Adams 5, 8–9, and 11–17, being a complete set of Low's auction catalogues for this period with one exception (Adams 7, dated March 26, 1885). Alexander Balmanno's collection, offered in Sale 8, was both large and important. A founder and honorary member of the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society, his collection of Greek and Roman coins was especially notable and was apparently purchased by the British Museum. Rated A– overall by Adams: "1857 proof set. Strong Latin American. RR Scottish gold. Portcullis crown, ? crown." The last of the catalogues present in this lot is the aborted sale of the fabled collection of Dr. Henry R. Linderman. The chicanery of Mint Officials becomes transparent in its text: restrikes, rare patterns and other Mint-produced concoctions abound. The collection was impounded by the United States Government and the sale did not take place. Several months later, the collection was sold under the auspices of Scott Stamp & Coin Company, minus a number of pieces confiscated by Treasury agents as being in violation of the 1873 coinage law that Linderman himself had helped to draft. When the collection was ultimately sold on February 28, 1888, Low was an employee of the Scott firm. This change of venue is attributable to Low's having ceased independent operations in the interim, entering the employ of J.W. Scott for nine years before resuming his own business. The hiatus may be attributable to financial difficulties precipitated by the unrecovered costs of producing this original Linderman catalogue.
Low, Lyman H. NUMISMATIC AUCTION CATALOGUES. Ten catalogues, dated: February 4–5, 1885; June 10–11, 1885; June 18, 1885; January 30, 1886; June 3, 1886; September 20, 1886; November 29–30, 1886; May 9, 1887; June 27, 1887; and June 28, 1887. All 8vo, original printed paper covers. Final (Linderman) sale with newspaper clipping about the upcoming sale affixed with a pin to the title page. Condition ranges from good to fine, with a few detached but present covers. Adams 5, 8–9, and 11–17, being a complete set of Low's auction catalogues for this period with one exception (Adams 7, dated March 26, 1885). Alexander Balmanno's collection, offered in Sale 8, was both large and important. A founder and honorary member of the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society, his collection of Greek and Roman coins was especially notable and was apparently purchased by the British Museum. Rated A– overall by Adams: "1857 proof set. Strong Latin American. RR Scottish gold. Portcullis crown, ? crown." The last of the catalogues present in this lot is the aborted sale of the fabled collection of Dr. Henry R. Linderman. The chicanery of Mint Officials becomes transparent in its text: restrikes, rare patterns and other Mint-produced concoctions abound. The collection was impounded by the United States Government and the sale did not take place. Several months later, the collection was sold under the auspices of Scott Stamp & Coin Company, minus a number of pieces confiscated by Treasury agents as being in violation of the 1873 coinage law that Linderman himself had helped to draft. When the collection was ultimately sold on February 28, 1888, Low was an employee of the Scott firm. This change of venue is attributable to Low's having ceased independent operations in the interim, entering the employ of J.W. Scott for nine years before resuming his own business. The hiatus may be attributable to financial difficulties precipitated by the unrecovered costs of producing this original Linderman catalogue.