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Auction 165 3 Dec 2022
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The Richard Winsor Catalogue, with Plates
Chapman, S.H. & H. CATALOGUE OF THE MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF COINS OF THE UNITED STATES FORMED BY THE LATE RICHARD B. WINSOR, ESQ., PROVIDENCE, R.I. Philadelphia: Davis & Harvey, December 16-17, 1895. 4to, later white textured cloth; spine ruled and lettered in gilt. (2), 93, (1) pages; 1353 lots; 9 (of 10) very fine tinted photographic plates. Repaired marginal chips to two leaves. Four plates of large cents are neatly annotated in pencil; plate of silver dollars less neatly annotated in ink. Very good. Adams 47, with most plates. An important sale, rated A by Adams: "Carolina elephant ?¢. 3 Granby varieties. Silver center 1¢. Gem silver. Clover leaf 1¢, superb copper. AU 1822 10¢." An important collection of American colonial, silver and copper coins. Occasionally encountered incomplete, as here, perhaps attributable to anomalies in the plate numbering: the "V" on Plate V appears never to have been printed (it was added on most copies by hand as here), and Plate IV was printed "Plate V" (usually corrected by entering an "I" in ink between "Plate" and "V," though on this copy it is not corrected). The "correct" Plate V, depicting dimes and half dimes, appears to be the plate most often missing, suggesting that it may not have initially been sent out with at least some of the pre-sale plated copies: this would seem to be the case here, as this copy in unpriced. The significance of the collection is well stated in the preface: "Mr. Winsor was one of the first of American collectors and a most liberal purchaser both at private and public sale. Always a fastidious buyer, and if the specimen offered did not meet his views of superior preservation it was most surely to be rejected. When the collector of to-day contemplates that he has offered in this sale for his purchase by public auction the result of some twenty-five years of collecting on the lines indicated by the above statements, he can readily appreciate what an extraordinary opportunity is here presented." The first two plates depict, respectively, silver and copper American colonial coins and other early issues; plates three, four and five illustrate rare American silver coins from dollars to half dimes; four of the five remaining plates depict Winsor's collection of choice large cents; and the final plate is devoted entirely to half cents. Davis 190. Ex Jim Neiswinter Library.
Estimate: 300 USD
Chapman, S.H. & H. CATALOGUE OF THE MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF COINS OF THE UNITED STATES FORMED BY THE LATE RICHARD B. WINSOR, ESQ., PROVIDENCE, R.I. Philadelphia: Davis & Harvey, December 16-17, 1895. 4to, later white textured cloth; spine ruled and lettered in gilt. (2), 93, (1) pages; 1353 lots; 9 (of 10) very fine tinted photographic plates. Repaired marginal chips to two leaves. Four plates of large cents are neatly annotated in pencil; plate of silver dollars less neatly annotated in ink. Very good. Adams 47, with most plates. An important sale, rated A by Adams: "Carolina elephant ?¢. 3 Granby varieties. Silver center 1¢. Gem silver. Clover leaf 1¢, superb copper. AU 1822 10¢." An important collection of American colonial, silver and copper coins. Occasionally encountered incomplete, as here, perhaps attributable to anomalies in the plate numbering: the "V" on Plate V appears never to have been printed (it was added on most copies by hand as here), and Plate IV was printed "Plate V" (usually corrected by entering an "I" in ink between "Plate" and "V," though on this copy it is not corrected). The "correct" Plate V, depicting dimes and half dimes, appears to be the plate most often missing, suggesting that it may not have initially been sent out with at least some of the pre-sale plated copies: this would seem to be the case here, as this copy in unpriced. The significance of the collection is well stated in the preface: "Mr. Winsor was one of the first of American collectors and a most liberal purchaser both at private and public sale. Always a fastidious buyer, and if the specimen offered did not meet his views of superior preservation it was most surely to be rejected. When the collector of to-day contemplates that he has offered in this sale for his purchase by public auction the result of some twenty-five years of collecting on the lines indicated by the above statements, he can readily appreciate what an extraordinary opportunity is here presented." The first two plates depict, respectively, silver and copper American colonial coins and other early issues; plates three, four and five illustrate rare American silver coins from dollars to half dimes; four of the five remaining plates depict Winsor's collection of choice large cents; and the final plate is devoted entirely to half cents. Davis 190. Ex Jim Neiswinter Library.
Estimate: 300 USD