Kolbe & Fanning
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H.G. Brown Part One, with Plates
Low, Lyman H. CATALOGUE. PART ONE OF THE COLLECTION OF H.G. BROWN ... CONSISTING OF THE AMERICAN COLONIAL AND UNITED STATES ISSUES, WITH THE TERRITORIAL AND STATE SERIES OF GOLD COINS, EMBRACING ALSO THE NOTED DOLLAR OF 1804... New York, October 11, 1904. Tall 8vo, original printed paper covers. 28, (2) pages; 561 lots; 2 photogravure plates of rare American coins. Hand-priced in red ink. Spine crudely taped; very good or so. Adams 93, with plates. Rated A overall, and in Early Silver, Private Gold and Comments as well. A scarce plated Low catalogue. Perhaps Low's most important sale of American coins. The 1804 dollar was purchased for $1100 by W.F. Dunham, and was subsequently sold in the famous Mehl sale nearly four decades later. Davis 646. Ex F. Gordon Frost Library (Kolbe & Fanning Sale 126), lot 871 at $275; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $150)
Low, Lyman H. CATALOGUE. PART ONE OF THE COLLECTION OF H.G. BROWN ... CONSISTING OF THE AMERICAN COLONIAL AND UNITED STATES ISSUES, WITH THE TERRITORIAL AND STATE SERIES OF GOLD COINS, EMBRACING ALSO THE NOTED DOLLAR OF 1804... New York, October 11, 1904. Tall 8vo, original printed paper covers. 28, (2) pages; 561 lots; 2 photogravure plates of rare American coins. Hand-priced in red ink. Spine crudely taped; very good or so. Adams 93, with plates. Rated A overall, and in Early Silver, Private Gold and Comments as well. A scarce plated Low catalogue. Perhaps Low's most important sale of American coins. The 1804 dollar was purchased for $1100 by W.F. Dunham, and was subsequently sold in the famous Mehl sale nearly four decades later. Davis 646. Ex F. Gordon Frost Library (Kolbe & Fanning Sale 126), lot 871 at $275; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $150)