GEORGE FREDERICK KOLBE
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ANS Library Chair Endowmant Benefit Auction - Results
August 27, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The American Numismatic Society Library Chair Endowment Benefit Auction held in Pittsburgh on August 19th was, by almost any measure, a great success. Thanks are due John W. Adams, Chairman of the ANS Library Committee, for his leadership, the donors for their important contributions, and the three dozen or so sale attendees who, combined with a like number of absentee bidders, bid often and generously. Estimated at around $50,000, the fifty lots in the sale brought nearly $90,000. ANS Librarian Frank Campbell attended the sale and may have even blushed a time or two at prices that often were more a tribute to his long and faithful stewardship than a reflection of the marketplace.
The prices realized list and catalogue will be accessible for a short time at our web site: www.numislit.com. Thanks are also due E-sylum editor, Wayne Homren, for his valuable help in planning the event.
2004 August 27