Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 164 27 Aug 2022
View prices realized
► Sale information
Find similar lots
Downing & Ford's Plated Groves Sale, with Addenda
Chapman, S.H. CATALOG OF THE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT, FOREIGN AND UNITED STATES COINS OF MR. STERLING P. GROVES OF CALIFORNIA, INCLUDING VERY RARE FOREIGN THALERS AND THE EXCESSIVELY RARE NEW YORK CENT NEO EBORACUS AND NEW JERSEY IMMUNIS COLUMBIA AND A SUPERB QUARTETTE OF CALIFORNIA $50S. AND A LARGE LIST OF NAPOLEON MEDALS. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Son & Co., January 31, 1912. 8vo, original white cloth-backed gilt-printed boards. 48 pages; 627 + 12 lots; 3 fine photographic plates. Hand-priced in ink. Typewritten addenda laid in, also priced. Fine. Adams 9, with plates. A major sale of California pioneer gold coins, American colonials and important European silver coins, a plate of which is devoted to each. A noted Cleveland, Ohio collector, Groves decided to sell his collection upon relocating to California. His gold slugs were a highlight of the sale (both sides of four of them are depicted). The typewritten addenda, offering twelve lots, mostly of half cents, is rarely seen. Davis 220. Ex Homer K. Downing Library, with his small numerical acquisition label on the front cover; ex John J. Ford, Jr. Library (Kolbe Sale 93, lot 311), with his bookplate; ex Twinleaf Library (Kolbe Sale 107, lot 28) at $1500; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $750)
Chapman, S.H. CATALOG OF THE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT, FOREIGN AND UNITED STATES COINS OF MR. STERLING P. GROVES OF CALIFORNIA, INCLUDING VERY RARE FOREIGN THALERS AND THE EXCESSIVELY RARE NEW YORK CENT NEO EBORACUS AND NEW JERSEY IMMUNIS COLUMBIA AND A SUPERB QUARTETTE OF CALIFORNIA $50S. AND A LARGE LIST OF NAPOLEON MEDALS. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Son & Co., January 31, 1912. 8vo, original white cloth-backed gilt-printed boards. 48 pages; 627 + 12 lots; 3 fine photographic plates. Hand-priced in ink. Typewritten addenda laid in, also priced. Fine. Adams 9, with plates. A major sale of California pioneer gold coins, American colonials and important European silver coins, a plate of which is devoted to each. A noted Cleveland, Ohio collector, Groves decided to sell his collection upon relocating to California. His gold slugs were a highlight of the sale (both sides of four of them are depicted). The typewritten addenda, offering twelve lots, mostly of half cents, is rarely seen. Davis 220. Ex Homer K. Downing Library, with his small numerical acquisition label on the front cover; ex John J. Ford, Jr. Library (Kolbe Sale 93, lot 311), with his bookplate; ex Twinleaf Library (Kolbe Sale 107, lot 28) at $1500; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $750)