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Three recent pickups from the Stacks Bowers Baltimore Auction. All are ex: Steve Tanenbaum via Dave Bowers, and have other pedigrees.

OH-165BV-2a - Farmers Hotel / Lanphear Muling - R-10 (Unique)


OH-165CY-104a - Lanphear - R-4 (I've been looking for the sea monster reverse for some time, and this is a superb example)


OH-165CY-116a - Lanphear - R-10 (Unique)


I had hoped to get more, but my budget only allowed these three. Thrilled to have them in the fold!

 

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Tropicana casino Vegas

 

I have a few Skalbe coins (mostly large cents, plus a shield nickel) and he sent me one through the mail some years ago in response to a request. I also stopped into his store in Boston one day and met him but he did not have any of his counterstamps on hand.

I was a bit concerned to hear Bruce mention him in the past tense....is he still with us?

 

Good to hear from you again, my friend. Sorry about the misunderstanding, but I don't know if he's still with us. I haven't heard that he passed away, so hopefully he hasn't.

Bruce

 

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Treasure Island Vegas

 

Picked this up the other day.
It's a 2008 Knights of the Coin Table Wooden Dollar, only 50 were made. I'd like to get it out of the 2x2 it's in and put it in plastic before it gets damaged. I wonder if ANACS grades wood....BALSA CLEAR WS70 FC (Wood State, First Cut). Also has some nice woody toning....woo woo...

 

I'm thinking a WS69, Chief. I think I see a little rub on her right knee.<lol>

All kidding aside, a nice wood for sure. I used to collect wooden issues from coin clubs, ANA, collectors, and others. I do still have some interesting flats, some from the 50s. The rounds I sold about 5 years ago.

Bruce

 

19th century UK silver token, Frome Selwood two shillings.

 

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Horseshoe casino Vegas

 

I picked this one up on eBay for what I felt was a reasonable price - another double exo piece, counterstamped Civil War store card. W.G. Ball is on the list of known counterstamps, but that's all I know - anyone else have info from Brunk?

The host is a Fuld NY630BV-6a.

 

Incoming:

 

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Excaliber

 

Counterstamps on CWT's are pretty scarce, jester. You're right about Brunk listing it, but no information on him. His example is on an 1801 Large Cent, and includes "1862" stamped with the "W.G.Ball" mark.

Ball is such a common name that he would be very difficult to positively identify. It's definitively a Civil War-era issue, so a search of major east coast city directories of the time might yield some possibilities. A nice piece, and scarce at that.

Bruce

 

@Jester .... Brunk lists a W.G. BALL / 1862 on an 1801 large cent. As there's no pic, I can't say it's the same stamp. I contemplated bidding on this piece when spotted. I found a few, potential issuers; this, with a NY City machinist, William G. Ball, being at the top of the list. He appeared in an 1876 directory and likely earlier ones.

 

Hey, Bruce ... Here are the pics I mentioned. Note the "stylized" font. Surely, it's not a slam-dunk, but I do think that John Sullivan, a mid 1800's Boston silversmith, is a likely issuer. Common as the Sullivan name is, there was but one "J. Sullivan" I could find who fits the bill. The silver in a single half dollar back then would suffice to make a teaspoon or half a watch case. This looks to be a retail mark, likely intended to stamp imported silver, circa 1850's. Maybe I can someday find a match ....

 

Bruce .... Here are the Samuel Root items I mentioned. You can see the matching address, 363 Broadway, on his token, the counterstamped large cent and lastly, the framed daguerreotype. I hope to eventually pen an article on these items and a group of similar pieces I have. Mated pairings like this tended to take me years to match. In some cases, the daguerreotypes are as rare as the counterstamps. In this case, not so.

There are but two, listed S. ROOT / 363 BROADWAY counterstamps reported. Samuel and brother, Marcus Root, were among the top daguerreians of their day. Although Samuel's surviving dags are relatively plentiful today, they tend to be more costly than most. In comparing the stamp on the coin with that on the frame, they appear to be identical in style, size and spacing - same punch.

 

More from Stacks Baltimore:


Fuld 133/458(?), NGC XF40BN - NGC says this is copper, I think it looks copper from the pictures. Stacks seems to think it's brass, although the auction description was phoned in - it is verbatim what was listed when they sold it in 2013. We'll see what it looks like in hand. I own one of these in what appears to be gilt brass, so this one adds to the set. Ex: John J. Ford, Jr. via Dave Bowers.


Ohio 46th 5c Sutler token, NGC XF Details. The "most common" of the 46th denominations, this one is only R-8 (the 10c and 25c are R-9). This is actually a duplicate for me, as I own one in MS61 - but with the pedigree and the price, I couldn't pass it up. Ex: George Fuld & John J. Ford, Jr. via Dave Bowers.