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The Clay Sale, with Photographic Plates

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:240.00 USD Estimated At:350.00 USD
The Clay Sale, with Photographic Plates
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Strobridge, William H., and W. Elliot Woodward. CATALOGUE OF A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN COINS & MEDALS, THE PROPERTY OF CHARLES CLAY, M.D., OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND. New York: Leavitt, Dec. 5-7, 1871. 8vo, modern tan cloth, gilt. 97, (3) pages; 1356 lots; 2 fine photographic plates. Printed prices realized list bound in. Hand-priced in pencil. Fine. A significant sale, the photographic plates of which depict mostly colonial coins (for which the sale is very important) and large cents. Clay was a Manchester numismatist mostly remembered today for this sale and for his work on the coinage of the Isle of Man. Adams 9 for the Strobridge series and C for the Woodward series, receiving his highest rating (A+ overall, A in large cents, colonials, Washingtonia, comments and British). Attinelli 62, where he implies that Strobridge, though credited on the title as the cataloguer, may have played a lesser role: "Messrs. W.E. Woodward and W.H. Strobridge also contributed slightly to the above sale." The presence of very obvious counterfeits in the sale (including two NE "pennies") makes one wonder about the level of involvement by Woodward (Strobridge specifically mentions them in his introduction). Davis 1025.