Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 162 22 Jan 2022
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Stack's Fixed Price Lists
Stack's. FIXED PRICE LISTS. New York, 1939–2006. An extensive set of 96 numbered and unnumbered lists, including: Nos. 1–2, 4–12, 14–27, 29–31, 33–36, 38, 40, 42–44, 49–51, 54, 56–58, 61–64, both No. 66s, 67A, 68–69 and 71–76, plus eight unnumbered and undated lists and twenty-nine dated but unnumbered lists (some of them substantial catalogues). In all, the lot includes 93 fixed price lists; several promotional items are also included. Varying formats, most of the early ones self-covered, some earlier ones also two-hole punched as issued. Overall condition very good to fine. One of the most complete sets of these fixed price lists we have ever offered. Rather modestly produced at first, the scarce early fixed price lists were an important commercial vehicle for Stack's and are of considerable interest. No. 9 offers 271 "U.S. Large Cents from 1793 to 1857 with Important Die Varieties"; No. 14 features 831 "U.S. Large Cents from 1793 to 1857 with Important Die Varieties from the A.C. Gies Collection." The latter was catalogued by teenaged numismatic tyro John J. Ford, Jr. and exhibits a penchant for detail that would later propel him to the front ranks of commercial American numismatics. Remy Bourne lists two versions of No. 36, but his method of citing pagination leaves the distinction unclear. He does not list a No. 39 or a No. 52, which are numbers we've yet to encounter either. While 67A was issued, there does not appear to have been an unlettered 67. The Stack's firm cooled on the fixed price medium during the 1970s and 1980s, but then issued a wonderful series of very impressive quarto-sized catalogues in the 1990s. A series that is well worth collecting.
Stack's. FIXED PRICE LISTS. New York, 1939–2006. An extensive set of 96 numbered and unnumbered lists, including: Nos. 1–2, 4–12, 14–27, 29–31, 33–36, 38, 40, 42–44, 49–51, 54, 56–58, 61–64, both No. 66s, 67A, 68–69 and 71–76, plus eight unnumbered and undated lists and twenty-nine dated but unnumbered lists (some of them substantial catalogues). In all, the lot includes 93 fixed price lists; several promotional items are also included. Varying formats, most of the early ones self-covered, some earlier ones also two-hole punched as issued. Overall condition very good to fine. One of the most complete sets of these fixed price lists we have ever offered. Rather modestly produced at first, the scarce early fixed price lists were an important commercial vehicle for Stack's and are of considerable interest. No. 9 offers 271 "U.S. Large Cents from 1793 to 1857 with Important Die Varieties"; No. 14 features 831 "U.S. Large Cents from 1793 to 1857 with Important Die Varieties from the A.C. Gies Collection." The latter was catalogued by teenaged numismatic tyro John J. Ford, Jr. and exhibits a penchant for detail that would later propel him to the front ranks of commercial American numismatics. Remy Bourne lists two versions of No. 36, but his method of citing pagination leaves the distinction unclear. He does not list a No. 39 or a No. 52, which are numbers we've yet to encounter either. While 67A was issued, there does not appear to have been an unlettered 67. The Stack's firm cooled on the fixed price medium during the 1970s and 1980s, but then issued a wonderful series of very impressive quarto-sized catalogues in the 1990s. A series that is well worth collecting.