The E-Sylum:  Volume 3, Number 53, December 24, 2000, Article 6

STACK'S JANUARY SALE 

   Mike Hodder submitted a Press Release for the upcoming 
   January sale at Stack's, excerpted below: 

   "A numismatic highlight of the sale is the Crosby Collection of 
   colonial electrotypes that B. Max Mehl once owned. After 
   careful research it appears that these were made by or for 
   Sylvester S. Crosby, who used several of them as illustrations 
   in his The Early Coins of America. Several of the electrotypes 
   bear annotations on their backs that may be in Crosby's hand." 

   Some other lots of possible interest to E-Sylum subscribers 
   may include: 

   "a very rare Maryland Lord Baltimore Groat (or Fourpence), 
   the Large Head variety" 

   "a teapot fashioned by New Yorker Ephraim Brasher, maker 
   of the famed Brasher Doubloon. The teapot has Brasher's full 
   name hallmark on the bottom." 

   In Washingtoniana, "examples of the rare Victor Sine Clade 
   and a uniface oval funeral badge struck in copper and 
   described as the only one available to collectors." 

   In Western Americana, "the unique 1851 $50 slug with the 
   J.T. Jones counterstamp, an historic record of San Francisco's 
   vigilante days." 

   "Western Assay Bars follow, highlighted by the unique 1856 
   $40.20 Blake & Company bar, the only dated gold Blake bar 
   known. One of only two known James King of William $20 
   gold bars is another star attraction of the firm's sale. Other bars 
   and ingots include unparted bars made by Frank Blake of Idaho 
   Territory " 

   In Fractional Currency, "featured are further selections from the 
   David Proskey Estate and duplicates from the H.K. Crofoot 
   Collection." 

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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