Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 164 27 Aug 2022
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Priced W.W.C. Wilson Part III, ex Bass
Raymond, Wayte. THE IMPORTANT NUMISMATIC COLLECTION FORMED BY THE LATE W.W.C. WILSON, MONTREAL, CANADA. PART III: CANADIAN COINS, EARLY AMERICAN & CANADIAN HISTORICAL MEDALS, MEDALS PRESENTED TO NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN CHIEFS, FOREIGN COINS & MEDALS. New York: Anderson Galleries, November 21, 1927. Crown 4to, original printed card covers. 16 pages; 297 lots. Hand-priced in ink. Covers worn and stained; very good or so. Adams 13. Quite rare, especially priced. The breadth and depth of the Wilson sales continues to be shown. Adams has written that of "Raymond's contemporaries, only S.H. Chapman and Tom Elder could have attempted to describe a collection of this scope not to mention one containing so many pieces only seldom encountered." Adams A-: "More Canadian: RR jetons, Bridge tokens (7), Owen Ropery, Chateauguay medals (5). Lion and Wolf medal. Myriad (9) George III medals. Important American medals." Ex Harry W. Bass, Jr. Library (Kolbe Sale 77, lot 497); ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $300)
Raymond, Wayte. THE IMPORTANT NUMISMATIC COLLECTION FORMED BY THE LATE W.W.C. WILSON, MONTREAL, CANADA. PART III: CANADIAN COINS, EARLY AMERICAN & CANADIAN HISTORICAL MEDALS, MEDALS PRESENTED TO NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN CHIEFS, FOREIGN COINS & MEDALS. New York: Anderson Galleries, November 21, 1927. Crown 4to, original printed card covers. 16 pages; 297 lots. Hand-priced in ink. Covers worn and stained; very good or so. Adams 13. Quite rare, especially priced. The breadth and depth of the Wilson sales continues to be shown. Adams has written that of "Raymond's contemporaries, only S.H. Chapman and Tom Elder could have attempted to describe a collection of this scope not to mention one containing so many pieces only seldom encountered." Adams A-: "More Canadian: RR jetons, Bridge tokens (7), Owen Ropery, Chateauguay medals (5). Lion and Wolf medal. Myriad (9) George III medals. Important American medals." Ex Harry W. Bass, Jr. Library (Kolbe Sale 77, lot 497); ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $300)