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The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 38, September 16, 2001, Article 5

AUCTIONS RESCHEDULED    

  On Wednesday the 12th, Vicken Yegparian of Stack's (57th   
  Street)  wrote on the Colonial Coins mailing list:   
  "--everyone, including family, is fine, but necessarily a bit shaken   
  up.  We did postpone our Auction Sale scheduled for yesterday   
  and today, and the new dates are November 12 and 13. As for   
  Sotheby's--they are located even further away from the disaster   
  than we are, so they were not directly affected. I did hear that   
  they closed down yesterday and that they might not have been   
  open today."  

  Coin World Online (http://www.coinworld.com/) reported that 
  Bowers and Merena Galleries announced they postponed their 
  September 14-15 public auction scheduled for New York City.  
  As of today, no new date has been announced.    

   These rescheduled auctions will take their place in numismatic   
  history alongside the J.N.T. Levick sale by Edward Cogan.   
  Originally scheduled for April 27-29, 1865, the sale was   
  postponed due to the assassination of President Lincoln on   
  April 14th, 1865.   Lincoln was shot while attending a   
  performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.   
  The following information about the sale was published in the   
  December 26, 1999 issue of The E-Sylum (v2#52):    

  "E. J Attinelli, in his 1876 work "Numisgraphics", had this to   
  say about the sale:  "... it was thought advisable to postpone,   
  in consequence of the excited state of the entire people,   
  consequent upon the assassination of President Lincoln by   
  Junius B. Booth, who had escaped, but was subsequently   
  captured mortally wounded."   [NOTE:  Attinelli confused   
  the facts here - Junius B. Booth, also an actor, was the   
  FATHER of John Wilkes Booth, the Lincoln assassin.]    

  "The catalogue was printed and issued in several ways, with   
  and without the part in which was the catalogue-portion of   
  Mr. Levick's collection, also each separately; also, 12 copies   
  of each printed on large paper.  Mr. Levick, in consequence   
  of the state of affairs, issued but few copies with the cover   
  bearing the preceding date, the greater portion of the   
  edition was stripped of its covers and replaced with a new   
  one, bearing the following date, when the sale took place."    

  Attinelli lists the sale as having taken place May 29th."    

  [Will any of the September 2001 catalogs be reissued or 
  amended?   Most are already in the hands of bidders. 
  Will sale-day copies be overprinted or updated with an 
  addendum?  -Editor]   

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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