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Unpublished Damon Douglas Study on Fugio Coppers

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Unpublished Damon Douglas Study on Fugio Coppers
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Douglas, Damon G. JAMES JARVIS AND THE FUGIO COPPERS. No place of date of issue (mid- to late 1940s). Original carbon copy typescript on onionskin paper with many pencil and ink additions and corrections. (4), 1-8, 8-A, 9-21, 21-A, 21-B, 22-31, 32*-42*, (2), 43*, 44, 45*, 45-A*, 46*-57*, (1) leaves [leaves marked with an asterisk are hand-numbered; the rest are numbered in type], typed and annotated on rectos only. Final leaf [an appendix] on different paper. 8.5 by 11 inch sheets. Near fine. An early draft of this masterful study, never published. A longer, more developed, annotated typescript appeared in the Ford Library sale (Kolbe Sale 93, lot 425), where it sold for $2400 hammer. That the present version is complete is attested to by the conclusion on page 57, which is followed by a fairly emphatic "The End." It is unillustrated, though a key to the planned illustrations is present. The extensive handwritten annotations and the insertion of pages with numbers like 45-A into the manuscript give some idea of Douglas's composition process. In addition to the longer manuscript in the Ford sale, another later draft resides in the American Numismatic Society Library, and was the source of three brief extracts appearing in the Colonial Newsletter in 1969. Subsequently, writes Michael Hodder, "Douglas' MS was distributed to patrons of the CNL Foundation in the early 1970s. Their comments were edited, footnoted, and collected as annotations to Douglas' MS and the whole 'published' through authorized copies sent to different researchers/collectors." The present version--the earliest known--is not one of these edited reproductions, and is quite desirable as an unpublished manuscript by a prominent numismatic researcher. Ex Rob Retz library.