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A Plated Beckwith Sale, with Annotations by Breen

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 USD
A Plated Beckwith Sale, with Annotations by Breen
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Chapman, S.H. THE COLLECTION OF CENTS OF THE UNITED STATES IN SUPERLATIVE PRESERVATION OF DR. HENRY W. BECKWITH, NEW HAVEN, CONN. Philadelphia: Davis & Harvey, Auctioneers, April 27, 1923. 8vo, later red cloth, gilt; original printed front wrap bound in. 23, (1), (2) pages; 124 lots; 7 magnificent photographic plates. Hand-priced in ink, with occasional annotations by Walter Breen. Ex Lester Merkin, with his bookplate. Near fine. A fine example of this important sale, with the cents through 1798 annotated by Breen, who gives provenance info. Adams A: "The finest collection of high condition cents of all time. Superb plates." Adams page 83: "the plates in the Beckwith and Hunter Sales, seem actually to possess a life of their own." Chapman states in the preface that the Beckwith "sale of cents is one of the most exquisite in preservation that has ever been offered... He has more specimens with more traces or altogether of the original color of the metal than any set that I have ever seen." A landmark sale. Clain-Stefanelli 12368. Davis 229. Ex Lester Merkin Library sale (Kolbe, 1984), lot 259.