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A Complete Set of Mason's Monthly Featuring a Fine Photographic Plate
Mason & Wells, and Mason & Company. [publishers]. MASON'S COIN AND STAMP COLLECTORS' MAGAZINE. Volumes I-VI (Philadelphia, 1867-1872), complete. 8vo, original printed paper covers. (2), 118 + (2), 114 + (2), 142 + (2), 196 + (2), 196 + (2), 88 pages; text illustrations; fine original albumen photographic plate depicting coin collectors of the 1860s mounted on printed page, as issued in Volume III, No. 3; fine medal-ruling machine plate of ancient coins in Volume IV, No. 2; lithographic plate of Indian antiquities in Volume IV, No. 8. Occasional chipping to covers; one or two covers detached but present; generally unfolded and near fine. Bourne 1865-16, 1870-5 and 1870-7. A very scarce and important foundational American numismatic periodical. Mason's Magazine, along with Frossard's Numisma, provides a rare glimpse of coin collecting in 19th-century America. In the early issues, Mason's essay on "The Coin Trade" and his "Reminiscences of a Coin Collector" series are an important source of information on American coin collecting and collectors in the 1850s and 1860s. The famous photograph entitled Mason's Photographic Gallery of the Coin Collectors of the United States No. 1, issued to accompany the March 1869 issue, is an especially sharp, well-exposed specimen, one of only a handful to survive without an often unsightly vertical mailing fold-mark. Mason also provides much interesting background on Joseph Mickley and the sale of his collection in 1867. Beginning with the second volume, Dr. Montroville Wilson initiated an illustrated series on "the aboriginal coins of this country," under the general title "Antiquarian Researches in North America," and Mason's series on the "History of the Pattern and Experimental Coins of the United States," also began about this time. The final volume features a colorful recounting of the French numismatist Jean Foy-Vaillant's 1674 adventure with pirates, causing him to swallow twenty gold coins, weighing four or five ounces, later recovering them "at the rate nature herself permitted." Reports of important coin auctions are also regularly included, and many other long-running series of articles are featured as well. Ex M. Bourne Library.
(Estimate: $1200)
Mason & Wells, and Mason & Company. [publishers]. MASON'S COIN AND STAMP COLLECTORS' MAGAZINE. Volumes I-VI (Philadelphia, 1867-1872), complete. 8vo, original printed paper covers. (2), 118 + (2), 114 + (2), 142 + (2), 196 + (2), 196 + (2), 88 pages; text illustrations; fine original albumen photographic plate depicting coin collectors of the 1860s mounted on printed page, as issued in Volume III, No. 3; fine medal-ruling machine plate of ancient coins in Volume IV, No. 2; lithographic plate of Indian antiquities in Volume IV, No. 8. Occasional chipping to covers; one or two covers detached but present; generally unfolded and near fine. Bourne 1865-16, 1870-5 and 1870-7. A very scarce and important foundational American numismatic periodical. Mason's Magazine, along with Frossard's Numisma, provides a rare glimpse of coin collecting in 19th-century America. In the early issues, Mason's essay on "The Coin Trade" and his "Reminiscences of a Coin Collector" series are an important source of information on American coin collecting and collectors in the 1850s and 1860s. The famous photograph entitled Mason's Photographic Gallery of the Coin Collectors of the United States No. 1, issued to accompany the March 1869 issue, is an especially sharp, well-exposed specimen, one of only a handful to survive without an often unsightly vertical mailing fold-mark. Mason also provides much interesting background on Joseph Mickley and the sale of his collection in 1867. Beginning with the second volume, Dr. Montroville Wilson initiated an illustrated series on "the aboriginal coins of this country," under the general title "Antiquarian Researches in North America," and Mason's series on the "History of the Pattern and Experimental Coins of the United States," also began about this time. The final volume features a colorful recounting of the French numismatist Jean Foy-Vaillant's 1674 adventure with pirates, causing him to swallow twenty gold coins, weighing four or five ounces, later recovering them "at the rate nature herself permitted." Reports of important coin auctions are also regularly included, and many other long-running series of articles are featured as well. Ex M. Bourne Library.
(Estimate: $1200)