Kolbe & Fanning
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Frossard Catalogues from the Zabriskie Library, Including Plated Hart Sale
Frossard, Ed. BOUND VOLUME OF FIVE FROSSARD CATALOGUES, MOSTLY INCLUDING COINS SOLD BY ANDREW C. ZABRISKIE. New York, 1884-1888. Five catalogues, bound in one volume, being Adams 38, 42, 73, 80 and 89. 8vo, contemporary black half calf with marbled sides; spine ruled and lettered in gilt; original printed paper covers bound in. All but second catalogue hand-priced in ink [second sale is partially priced]; occasional pencil annotations. Final catalogue is the Gerald Hart collection, and includes 6 photographically printed plates. Extremities rubbed and worn, but binding sound; internally near fine. Adams 38, 42, 73, 80 & 89, the last with plates. Inscribed in black ink on the front flyleaf: "This volume contains five priced catalogues in the first four of which invoices of coins and medals from my collection will be found--having been sold in the years 1884-1885-1887-1888, Andrew C. Zabriskie." All Thick Paper copies. While Zabriskie's consignments were mainly comprised of second-tier material, the volume at hand is nonetheless interesting and desirable for a variety of reasons. Storecards from his collection were featured in the first sale and 200 Zabriskie lots in the second catalogue brought $152.96, including an uncirculated 1834 $2.50 sold at face. In the third catalogue were a number of his American medals and some nice cents (an uncirculated 1796 costing $20 brought $24; a "Proof" 1797 costing $15 brought $12.75 and an uncirculated 1829 costing $12.50 sold for $8.25). Some interesting Zabriskie books were also in the sale, including a Marvin on Masonic medals at $7.50. The addenda, lots 1052-1077, belonged to Zabriskie as well. A run of half dollars and more numismatic literature were featured in the fourth sale. The fifth sale present here, bound in at the end, is an exceptionally fine example of the Gerald E. Hart collection, one of only seventy-five thick paper copies issued with plates. Rated A+ by Adams, the Hart collection was one of the great all-time American sales of Canadian coins, tokens and medals. It also featured Indian peace medals and communion tokens. Bowman, in Collectors of Canadian Coins of the Past, notes that the sale featured "620 lots of Canadian items among which were four specimens of wampum, Newfoundland $2 gold of 1880, P.E.I. holey dollar, wheat sheaf, set Hudson's Bay, Vexator, 5 side views, Maysenholder, Ropery, Lauzon, 11 bridge tokens, Weir & Larminie and 2 Lachine Railway tokens." Ex Stack Family Library (Kolbe Sale 111, lot 74); ex Cardinal Collection Library.
Estimate: 500 USD
Frossard, Ed. BOUND VOLUME OF FIVE FROSSARD CATALOGUES, MOSTLY INCLUDING COINS SOLD BY ANDREW C. ZABRISKIE. New York, 1884-1888. Five catalogues, bound in one volume, being Adams 38, 42, 73, 80 and 89. 8vo, contemporary black half calf with marbled sides; spine ruled and lettered in gilt; original printed paper covers bound in. All but second catalogue hand-priced in ink [second sale is partially priced]; occasional pencil annotations. Final catalogue is the Gerald Hart collection, and includes 6 photographically printed plates. Extremities rubbed and worn, but binding sound; internally near fine. Adams 38, 42, 73, 80 & 89, the last with plates. Inscribed in black ink on the front flyleaf: "This volume contains five priced catalogues in the first four of which invoices of coins and medals from my collection will be found--having been sold in the years 1884-1885-1887-1888, Andrew C. Zabriskie." All Thick Paper copies. While Zabriskie's consignments were mainly comprised of second-tier material, the volume at hand is nonetheless interesting and desirable for a variety of reasons. Storecards from his collection were featured in the first sale and 200 Zabriskie lots in the second catalogue brought $152.96, including an uncirculated 1834 $2.50 sold at face. In the third catalogue were a number of his American medals and some nice cents (an uncirculated 1796 costing $20 brought $24; a "Proof" 1797 costing $15 brought $12.75 and an uncirculated 1829 costing $12.50 sold for $8.25). Some interesting Zabriskie books were also in the sale, including a Marvin on Masonic medals at $7.50. The addenda, lots 1052-1077, belonged to Zabriskie as well. A run of half dollars and more numismatic literature were featured in the fourth sale. The fifth sale present here, bound in at the end, is an exceptionally fine example of the Gerald E. Hart collection, one of only seventy-five thick paper copies issued with plates. Rated A+ by Adams, the Hart collection was one of the great all-time American sales of Canadian coins, tokens and medals. It also featured Indian peace medals and communion tokens. Bowman, in Collectors of Canadian Coins of the Past, notes that the sale featured "620 lots of Canadian items among which were four specimens of wampum, Newfoundland $2 gold of 1880, P.E.I. holey dollar, wheat sheaf, set Hudson's Bay, Vexator, 5 side views, Maysenholder, Ropery, Lauzon, 11 bridge tokens, Weir & Larminie and 2 Lachine Railway tokens." Ex Stack Family Library (Kolbe Sale 111, lot 74); ex Cardinal Collection Library.
Estimate: 500 USD