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Parmelee Auction Catalog

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Exonumia Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Parmelee Auction Catalog
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Sold by The Messrs. Leavitt, at Clinton Hall, New York, on the afternoon of June 12th, 1876. Prices written by each lot in elegant penmanship.



Lorin Parmelee, a Vermont native, established himself in Boston in 1849 in the bean-baking business. The 1858 city directory lists him as a baker living at 7 E. Chester St. In 1860, he was at 46 Chester Park, with his bean-baking business, Parmelee & Newell (with Edison Newell), at the rear of the premises.



By the 1850s, Lorin began collecting large copper cents, which were being replaced in general circulation by small copper-nickel Flying Eagle cents (launched on May 25, 1857). And within the coming years Lorin became quite the coin collector.



Lorin continued to upgrade his collection and sell off his duplicates. He purchased the collections of George Seavey in 1873, J. Carson Brevoort (c.1876) and Charles Bushnell (c.1882). In 1883 his collection was valued at $60,000. He consigned coins (310 large cents) to the Strobridge sale of June 18-20, 1873. The Strobridge sale of Parmelee (Brevoort) on June 12, 1876 contained 170 of his large cents.

Other collectible Parmelee Auction catalogues are from the 1890 sale. HWAC# 61949 Date: 1876 Location: