Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 162 22 Jan 2022
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Large Run of Smythe Catalogues
Smythe, R.M., and Spink-Smythe. AUCTION CATALOGUES. New York, 1989–2013. An extensive group of some 140 illustrated catalogues. 4to, original pictorial card covers. A number with prices realized lists, though not the majority. Generally fine or nearly so. The Smythe catalogues trace back to the NASCA series involving Douglas Ball and associates. The firm was acquired by Jules Karp who in turn sold it to R.M. Smythe, who issued around 200 numbered catalogues before the business was purchased by Spink. Among the many notable collections of paper money handled by the firm, the Herb and Martha Schingoethe collection of obsolete currency was perhaps the most important (the present lot includes the first 12 of those sales). The earlier catalogues bearing both the NASCA and Smythe names are listed in this catalogue under NASCA. The present lot begins when the NASCA name was dropped.
Smythe, R.M., and Spink-Smythe. AUCTION CATALOGUES. New York, 1989–2013. An extensive group of some 140 illustrated catalogues. 4to, original pictorial card covers. A number with prices realized lists, though not the majority. Generally fine or nearly so. The Smythe catalogues trace back to the NASCA series involving Douglas Ball and associates. The firm was acquired by Jules Karp who in turn sold it to R.M. Smythe, who issued around 200 numbered catalogues before the business was purchased by Spink. Among the many notable collections of paper money handled by the firm, the Herb and Martha Schingoethe collection of obsolete currency was perhaps the most important (the present lot includes the first 12 of those sales). The earlier catalogues bearing both the NASCA and Smythe names are listed in this catalogue under NASCA. The present lot begins when the NASCA name was dropped.