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The Very Rare F.R. Alvord Sale, with Plates

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:1,700.00 USD Estimated At:2,500.00 USD
The Very Rare F.R. Alvord Sale, with Plates
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Chapman, S.H. THE SUPERLATIVE COLLECTION OF UNITED STATES HALF CENTS, COMPLETE IN ALL DATES AND VARIETIES OF THE LATE F.R. ALVORD, ESQ. YORK, PENNA. Philadelphia: Davis & Harvey, Auctioneers, June 9, 1924. 8vo, later maroon cloth, gilt; original gilt-printed front white paper cover bound in. 20, (2) pages; 255 lots; 5 very fine photographic plates of half cents. Hand-priced in blue ink. Fine. Ex Harry W. Bass, Jr. library, with his bookplate. Adams A: "Arguably the best collection ever of half cents: complete original proofs." A fine example of this rare catalogue. Little appears to be known about Frederick Reed Alvord, but the superb photographic illustrations of his half cents present here testify elegantly to the magnificence of his collection. Only two dozen copies were issued with plates and considerably fewer copies appear to have survived the intervening years.