GEORGE FREDERICK KOLBE
FINE NUMISMATIC
BOOKS
For Immediate Release 2006 March 12.
(Revised 2006 April 22.)
Auction Sale 99 Results: Auction Sale 99, closing on March 9th, 2006, was quite successful. Over 86% of the lots in the sale sold, bringing more than the total of ALL of the estimates. Some of the sale highlights include: perhaps the highest price ever realized for a regular issue non-plated Chapman sale, achieved by the brothers’ April 13-14, 1896 stamp sale, selling at $1,840; it was followed by another non-plated April 22, 1911 Henry Chapman Siedlecki sale which brought $920; William Butler Yeats’ elusive work on Irish Free State coins brought $460 on a $200 estimate; the catalogue of the first Toronto coin auction sale was avidly sought after, selling for $805 on a $250 estimate; Q. David Bowers’ first numismatic publication realized an impressive $862; a complete set of Davenport works on crowns and talers sold for $805; the monumental 1913 Tolstoi catalogue of Russian coins brought $862; plated Thomas Elder catalogues of the 1908 Gschwend and Wilson sales were in demand, bringing $690 and $661 respectively; a very fine first edition/first issue Red Book sold for $1,955; Zelada’s 1778 catalogue of Aes Grave in the Cardinal de Zelada collection was estimated at $250 and sold for $431; and a special leather-bound edition of C. Wyllys Betts’ landmark 1894 American Colonial History Illustrated by Contemporary Medals saw spirited bidding, finally selling for $2,875 on a $350 estimate.
The firm may be contacted at P. O. Drawer 3100, Crestline, CA 92325; by telephone at 909-338-6527; or by email at GFK@numislit.com. Those interested are also invited to visit Kolbe’s web site (www.numislit.com).