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Burleigh's Very Scarce 1884 Plated Sale
Burleigh, Joseph B., Jr. CATALOGUE OF A VARIED AND INTERESTING COLLECTION OF MEDALS, ENGLISH TOKENS, UNITED STATES, COLONIAL AND FOREIGN COINS, U.S. AND FOREIGN STAMPS & ENVELOPES, BELONGING TO SEVERAL PRIVATE COLLECTORS. Baltimore: Wm. Seemuller, May 20-23, 1884. 8vo, original gilt-printed white paper covers. 87, (1) pages; 1564 lots; 1 fine photographic plate, mounted on a blank sheet as issued. Plate loose; spine weak and taped. Pencil notations. Very good or so. Very scarce. Burleigh's seventh and final sale, and the only one issued with photographic illustrations. Most notable for Conder tokens, the plate depicts a 1633 Gustavus Adolphus medal, 1791 English Sedition token, 1796 Buonaparte lead medal, the Baltimore Harrison Log Cabin Medal, and four 18th-century English tokens. Little appears to be known about Burleigh. He is not listed in Mercer's Numismatic Directory for 1881, nor is his name found among the officers of the Numismatic and Archaeological Society of Baltimore. Apparently, the competition from the auction sales conducted in Baltimore at the same time by Dr. George Massamore proved to be too strong. This does not reflect particularly well on Burleigh, however, since John Adams notes in his work on 19th-century American coin auctioneers that "Of all the catalogers chronicled in these pages, Massamore is the most easily forgotten." Indeed, Burleigh's cataloguing seems uninspired at best and the text is riddled with typographical errors. All of Burleigh's sales appear to be scarce if not rare. Ex Dan Freidus library; ex Kolbe & Fanning's 2013 New York Book Auction, lot 178; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $300)
Burleigh, Joseph B., Jr. CATALOGUE OF A VARIED AND INTERESTING COLLECTION OF MEDALS, ENGLISH TOKENS, UNITED STATES, COLONIAL AND FOREIGN COINS, U.S. AND FOREIGN STAMPS & ENVELOPES, BELONGING TO SEVERAL PRIVATE COLLECTORS. Baltimore: Wm. Seemuller, May 20-23, 1884. 8vo, original gilt-printed white paper covers. 87, (1) pages; 1564 lots; 1 fine photographic plate, mounted on a blank sheet as issued. Plate loose; spine weak and taped. Pencil notations. Very good or so. Very scarce. Burleigh's seventh and final sale, and the only one issued with photographic illustrations. Most notable for Conder tokens, the plate depicts a 1633 Gustavus Adolphus medal, 1791 English Sedition token, 1796 Buonaparte lead medal, the Baltimore Harrison Log Cabin Medal, and four 18th-century English tokens. Little appears to be known about Burleigh. He is not listed in Mercer's Numismatic Directory for 1881, nor is his name found among the officers of the Numismatic and Archaeological Society of Baltimore. Apparently, the competition from the auction sales conducted in Baltimore at the same time by Dr. George Massamore proved to be too strong. This does not reflect particularly well on Burleigh, however, since John Adams notes in his work on 19th-century American coin auctioneers that "Of all the catalogers chronicled in these pages, Massamore is the most easily forgotten." Indeed, Burleigh's cataloguing seems uninspired at best and the text is riddled with typographical errors. All of Burleigh's sales appear to be scarce if not rare. Ex Dan Freidus library; ex Kolbe & Fanning's 2013 New York Book Auction, lot 178; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $300)