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Sheridan Downey Mail-Bid Sales

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Sheridan Downey Mail-Bid Sales
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Downey, Sheridan. MAIL BID SALES. Oakland and Los Altos, 1989-2012. Includes Sale 1-38 except for Sale 34; Sale 1 appears to be a photocopy. Thirty-seven catalogues, plus three unnumbered ones dated Aug. 18, 2004; July 30, 2008; and Aug. 17, 2011. Some with notes and other materials. 4to, original bindings, as issued [Sale No. 11 is unillustrated duplicated sheets, as are some of the early sales]. Lots also includes twenty or so fixed price lists and other publications, some of them photocopies or printouts. Materials generally fine, some of the sale with price lists. Of considerable importance to collectors of Bust half dollars. Sale 9, featuring the Al Overton Reference Collection of United States Bust Half Dollars, is especially important and fairly scarce. Described in the catalogue as "the most exciting sale of Bust Half Dollars in the history of numismatics," the sale never took place, as the collection was sold shortly before the mail-bid sale was to be held. Accounting for the present scarcity of this catalogue, Downey has noted that, because of the deal, "I stopped the press run of the catalogue at 400 copies." Ex Raymond Hale library.