Deluxe Leather Edition of Guttag's Guide
Guttag Bros. RARE COINS OF THE UNITED STATES. New York, 1921. Cover title cited. 16mo [16 by 12 cm], original black distinctively blindstamped full morocco; upper cover lettered in gilt; faux white moirŽ endpapers; all page edges gilt. Limitation leaf, (4), 112, iv, (2) pages; coin illustrations throughout. Fine. No. 3 of the Deluxe Leatherbound Edition. An early premium guide issued by the brothers Guttag, specialists, as cited on the front covers, in FOREIGN MONEY and FOREIGN EXCHANGE, as well as being NUMISMATISTS. It was issued slightly after, or perhaps concurrently with, the firm's ubiquitous Foreign Currency and Exchange Guide, advertised on the last page. In contrast, Rare Coins of the United States is infrequently encountered in any form. The firm's wide-ranging traditional activities are headlined in the present volume: Bullion, Specie, Foreign Bank Notes, Collections Made in All Parts of the World, Brokers in Foreign Exchange, Traveler's Cheques, Letters of Credit, Etc. At the time of publication, however, the Guttag firm was beginning to expand its business to include the marketing of rare foreign and American coins. Their first Coin Bulletin, published in the spring of 1923, announces: "For years past we have been dealing in Coins as part of our general business, but on account of the tremendous increase in this branch we have found it necessary to establish a new department to deal in COINS EXCLUSIVELY."
Estimate: 250 USD