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The Stack’s Galleries Clara Sobernheim Sale

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The Stack’s Galleries Clara Sobernheim Sale
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Stack’s Galleries. THE SOBERNHEIM COLLECTION OF ANCIENT GLASS INCLUDING EGYPTIAN, ROMAN, ISLAMIC, RHENISH, SYRIAN, SIDONIAN AND OTHERS. GREEK AND ROMAN COINS. SOLD BY ORDER OF MRS. CLARA SOBERNHEIM, PORT CHESTER, N.Y. PUBLIC AUCTION SALE. New York, April 19, 1952. 8vo, original printed front card cover. 43, (5) pages; 447 lots; 16 halftone plates. A damaged copy, with most of the early leaves (offering ancient glass) having descriptions clipped out of them, and with one glass plate also clipped. The numismatic content is complete and whole. Worn, and lacking the rear cover. A damaged (but numismatically complete) copy of a rare Stack’s production. This catalogue was virtually unknown until the systematic researches of Martin Gengerke uncovered a copy in the American Numismatic Society Library. Stack’s Galleries was a subsidiary of Stack’s, run by Joseph B. Stack and T.J. Muldoon, that focused on antiquities. This, the firm’s fourteenth of over twenty auctions, appears to be the only sale of theirs to include any coins. The last five pages of text comprise 66 lots of coins (lots 382-447 inclusive), about equally divided among Greek and Roman coins, and the last three plates (XIV-XVI) depict both sides of 19 Greek and 11 Roman coins. The remainder of the catalogue and illustrations are devoted to describing and depicting an outstanding collection of ancient glass. Reprinted on the title verso is a letter from Arthur Upham Pope and the Asia Institute (where the collection was on loan) to Mrs. Sobernheim, reading in part: “Of course it is a great loss to us to know that the glass collection is going to be broken up ... Your husband did a wonderful job collecting this glass and it is probably the best systematically collected glass that has ever been made. He created a collection for scholars and scientists.” Quite rare; one of only a few examples we have ever handled.