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Clapp's Type Set Photos

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:2,400.00 USD Estimated At:3,500.00 USD
Clapp's Type Set Photos
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Clapp, George H. TYPE SET OF UNITED STATES CENTS, 1793-1857. FROM THE COLLECTION OF GEORGE H. CLAPP. Sewickley, Pa., November, 1945. Photographic title and 5 photographic plates of large cents. 4to [29 by 22.5 cm], original plain black leather-grained cloth binder with the title and plates housed back-to-back in three clear plastic sheets. Blank front flyleaf detached. Plastic sheets wrinkled, not affecting prints. Near fine. An extremely rare photographic record featuring superb illustrations of many of the choicest cents in the Clapp collection. Originally presented by Clapp to the Western Pennsylvania Numismatic Society library. Not in the 1994-95 Champa sales nor the 1998-2001 Bass sales. The only other example that we have ever handled was featured in our John J. Ford, Jr. library sale (Part I), where it brought $3750 hammer. Ex Dennis Mendelson Library (Kolbe Sale 52, lot 38).