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Woodward's Rare Vicksburg Sale, with 9 Original Plates
Woodward, W. Elliot, assisted by Ed. Frossard. CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF COINS AND MEDALS SELECTED FROM A LARGE CABINET COLLECTED AT VICKSBURG, MISS., COMPRISING THE GEMS OF AN IMMENSE COLLECTION, ESPECIALLY RICH IN THE GREAT CROWNS AND THEIR MULTIPLES, OF GERMANY AND EUROPE, AND ALMOST EQUALLY RICH IN THE AMERICAN SERIES OF COLONIAL AND WASHINGTON COINS, AND THE REGULAR ISSUES OF THE U.S. MINT... New York, May 21-25, 1888. 8vo, original printed paper covers. (2), 153, (1) pages; 2454 lots; 9 of 12 original photographically printed plates laid in, with high-quality photographic reprints of the three missing plates. Hand-priced in ink. Removed from previous binding and trimmed; some spotting to plates, most heavy on the first. Very good. Adams 95, with nine original plates supplemented by three reprint plates. Very rare with plates--we have not offered a copy with plates since Kolbe Sale 107 in 2009 (though we catalogued the plated copy in the Eric P. Newman Library, sold by Heritage in 2018). The four Vicksburg sales, the property of George Marion Klein, were the last truly important sales conducted by Woodward. "No collection surpassing this has appeared since the famous Mickley sale," states the title page. Among other delicacies, this first sale included the Davis Class III 1804 dollar, two Willow Tree shillings, a set of six Seasons Medals (three silver and copper), exceptional 1793 cents, excellent crown/thaler-size pieces (as well as multiples), British Commonwealth and English Civil War-era coins, and so on. Woodward was assisted by Ed Frossard in the cataloguing of these sales. In the Fall 1998 issue of The Asylum, Klein's great-grandson J.H. McInnis published a brief biographical article on the collector, who lived until 1923. Ex Charles Davis sale of May 7, 2005; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $1000)
Woodward, W. Elliot, assisted by Ed. Frossard. CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF COINS AND MEDALS SELECTED FROM A LARGE CABINET COLLECTED AT VICKSBURG, MISS., COMPRISING THE GEMS OF AN IMMENSE COLLECTION, ESPECIALLY RICH IN THE GREAT CROWNS AND THEIR MULTIPLES, OF GERMANY AND EUROPE, AND ALMOST EQUALLY RICH IN THE AMERICAN SERIES OF COLONIAL AND WASHINGTON COINS, AND THE REGULAR ISSUES OF THE U.S. MINT... New York, May 21-25, 1888. 8vo, original printed paper covers. (2), 153, (1) pages; 2454 lots; 9 of 12 original photographically printed plates laid in, with high-quality photographic reprints of the three missing plates. Hand-priced in ink. Removed from previous binding and trimmed; some spotting to plates, most heavy on the first. Very good. Adams 95, with nine original plates supplemented by three reprint plates. Very rare with plates--we have not offered a copy with plates since Kolbe Sale 107 in 2009 (though we catalogued the plated copy in the Eric P. Newman Library, sold by Heritage in 2018). The four Vicksburg sales, the property of George Marion Klein, were the last truly important sales conducted by Woodward. "No collection surpassing this has appeared since the famous Mickley sale," states the title page. Among other delicacies, this first sale included the Davis Class III 1804 dollar, two Willow Tree shillings, a set of six Seasons Medals (three silver and copper), exceptional 1793 cents, excellent crown/thaler-size pieces (as well as multiples), British Commonwealth and English Civil War-era coins, and so on. Woodward was assisted by Ed Frossard in the cataloguing of these sales. In the Fall 1998 issue of The Asylum, Klein's great-grandson J.H. McInnis published a brief biographical article on the collector, who lived until 1923. Ex Charles Davis sale of May 7, 2005; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $1000)