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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, contemporary black half calf with marbled sides; spine ruled and lettered in gilt; original gilt-printed white paper covers bound in. (2), 93, (1) pages; 1353 lots; 10 very fine tinted photographic plates with tissue guards. Prices realized list bound in. Covers detached, but present; binding worn; interior pages fine. Adams 47, with the full complement of plates. An important sale, rated A by Adams: "Carolina elephant 1/2¢. 3 Granby varieties. Silver center 1¢. Gem silver. Clover leaf 1¢, superb copper. AU 1822 10¢." Most significant for American colonial, silver and copper coins. Seldom offered with all ten of the plates, perhaps attributable to anomalies in the plate numbering: the "V" on Plate V appears never to have been printed (it is added on most copies in ink as here), and Plate IV was printed "Plate V" (usually corrected by entering an "I" in ink between "Plate" and "V" as here). 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. 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 Louis E. Elisaberg, Sr. Library; ex Richard A. Eliasberg Library.