Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 165 3 Dec 2022
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The Gene Reale Collection
Reale, Gene. THE GENE REALE COPPER COLLECTION. A COLLECTION OF HALF CENTS AND LARGE CENTS IN SUPERB UNCIRCULATED CONDITION. Lunenburg: Stinehower Press, 1995. 4to, well-bound in original black quarter morocco, decoratively ruled in gilt, with crimson grained fine cloth sides; upper cover lettered and decorated in gilt with an inset full color coin enlargement in the center; flat spine lettered and decorated in gilt; crimson silk headbands; decoratively printed pictorial endpapers. Housed in a handsomely executed black full morocco clamshell book box; red morocco panel inset on the upper cover, double bordered and lettered in gilt; spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt. Blank leaf, 110 pages; title printed in two colors within a decorative border; color portrait; enlarged coin illustrations in full color throughout. Clamshell box lightly rubbed, else fine. Ex Harvey G. Stack, inscribed to him by the author. Number 16 of this marvelous production, recording 141 superb half cents and large cents in the Reale collection. Copies of this work were advertised for sale upon publication for $2150.00. Ex William A. Burd Library.
Estimate: 350 USD
Reale, Gene. THE GENE REALE COPPER COLLECTION. A COLLECTION OF HALF CENTS AND LARGE CENTS IN SUPERB UNCIRCULATED CONDITION. Lunenburg: Stinehower Press, 1995. 4to, well-bound in original black quarter morocco, decoratively ruled in gilt, with crimson grained fine cloth sides; upper cover lettered and decorated in gilt with an inset full color coin enlargement in the center; flat spine lettered and decorated in gilt; crimson silk headbands; decoratively printed pictorial endpapers. Housed in a handsomely executed black full morocco clamshell book box; red morocco panel inset on the upper cover, double bordered and lettered in gilt; spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt. Blank leaf, 110 pages; title printed in two colors within a decorative border; color portrait; enlarged coin illustrations in full color throughout. Clamshell box lightly rubbed, else fine. Ex Harvey G. Stack, inscribed to him by the author. Number 16 of this marvelous production, recording 141 superb half cents and large cents in the Reale collection. Copies of this work were advertised for sale upon publication for $2150.00. Ex William A. Burd Library.
Estimate: 350 USD