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Ten 19th-century Sales, Including Plated Marr & Frothingham

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:170.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 USD
Ten 19th-century Sales, Including Plated Marr & Frothingham
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Sampson, H.G. A COLLECTION OF FINE UNITED STATES DOLLARS ... AND A FINE COLLECTION OF BEAUTIFUL AND RARE FOREIGN CROWNS, THE PROPERTY OF MR. JOHN MARR, OF ROCHESTER, N.Y. ALSO, A SUPERB COLLECTION OF UNITED STATES CENTS AND HALF CENTS, COLONIAL COINS ... THE PROPERTY OF MR. C.F. FROTHINGHAM, OF NEW YORK. New York, Bangs, May 29, 1883. 35, (1) pages; 584 lots; 1 artotype plate. [bound with, not in order] Cogan, Edward. Sales of Nov. 7-9, 1877; Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 1877; and Dec. 20-21, 1877. [bound with] Cogan, George W. Sales of May 16-19, 1883; and Dec. 29, 1883. [bound with] Sampson, H.G. Sales of Dec. 20-21, 1883; Feb. 12-14, 1884; Mar. 18-20, 1884; and April 8-9, 1884. Ten sales total. 8vo, contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Spine lacking, and rear board detached. Catalogues untrimmed. Most folded for mailing. Very good. A period binding of ten auction sales, including H.G. Sampson's May 1883 sale of the Marr and Frothingham collections, featuring a fine artotype plate depicting twenty large cents. Adams describes the large cents in this sale as "superb," noting that it included the "finest known S-48 [the starred reverse] and S-189." Ex Stack Family library.