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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24690170, member: 26430"]Interesting... I don't think I recognize it, but I'll save it in my unidentified tags file in case I ever come across one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've got one coin from a Karl Kress catalog, but sadly none of the catalogs themselves. (I do see them with some frequency, and have bid on a bunch of duplicates from this period that were sold last year by the ANS Library on ebay, but the bids went higher than I was willing to pay.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, only one Kress catalog has been digitized & published online to my knowledge (17 April 1944, w/ 7 plates ancient, of 12 total): <a href="https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kress1944_04_17/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kress1944_04_17/" rel="nofollow">https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kress1944_04_17/</a> (see also <a href="https://www.rnumis.com/house_auctions.php?house=KRSS&db_minyr=1844&db_maxyr=2023&dbcountry=All%20Countries" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.rnumis.com/house_auctions.php?house=KRSS&db_minyr=1844&db_maxyr=2023&dbcountry=All%20Countries" rel="nofollow">rNumis/Kress</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>But there are several more available catalogs from the Kress predecessor, Otto Helbing Nachf.: see <a href="https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/service/heiopensearch/treffer.html?fq=-meta_protected_b%3Atrue&qf=&q=&qf=meta_name_txt&q=Otto%20Helbing%20Nachf.&qf=meta_title_txt&q=&qf=meta_subject_txt&q=&resultset_restriction=auto&sort=sort_title_s%20asc&ui_lang=eng" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/service/heiopensearch/treffer.html?fq=-meta_protected_b%3Atrue&qf=&q=&qf=meta_name_txt&q=Otto%20Helbing%20Nachf.&qf=meta_title_txt&q=&qf=meta_subject_txt&q=&resultset_restriction=auto&sort=sort_title_s%20asc&ui_lang=eng" rel="nofollow">these search results on HEIDI</a> or from <a href="https://www.rnumis.com/house_auctions.php?house=HLBG&db_minyr=1844&db_maxyr=2023&dbcountry=All%20Countries" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.rnumis.com/house_auctions.php?house=HLBG&db_minyr=1844&db_maxyr=2023&dbcountry=All%20Countries" rel="nofollow">the rNumis page</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>There is an interesting history to this particular firm (Helbing --> Kress). </b></p><p><i>From my notes (I'll edit in some prior threads if I can find them):</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Otto Helbing founded the firm in 1878 (retired 1912). He was part of the famous numismatic Hirsch family. His nephews Moritz Hirsch (d. 1914) and Heinrich Hirsch (1868-1941) got their start at Helbing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gerhard Hirsch (1903–1982, son of Moritz) was co-owner of the business until the Nazis forced him out and arrested him c. 1937-9 (he survived the war and started a new firm in 1953 which survives today as G. Hirsch Nachf., which <a href="https://coinsweekly.com/germanys-oldest-coin-dealerships/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinsweekly.com/germanys-oldest-coin-dealerships/" rel="nofollow">considers itself the continuation of Helbing and Germany's oldest dealership</a> -- I think today owned by G. Hirsch's niece or another relative).</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a Jewish business, so the Nazis seized and gave it to Karl Kress. (There's been some discussion & confusion about Kress' role & identity; there was a German art photographer by that name who was a POW of the Allies & worked with "The Monuments Men," but apparently that's not him.)</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1940s the firm was used to liquidate coins seized by the Nazis from the Jews (or assets that people were forced to sell). By the 1960s, however, the coins being sold are not considered to have a "red flag provenance" (which could mean investigate further to make sure they're not on a looted property list).</p><p><br /></p><p>I have one coin from Kress, this is from Kress 121 (4 Dec 1961), Lot 198, a Pomegranate Stater from Pamphylia, Side. I'd love to check Kress 121 for any consignor or prov. info:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575525[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It was later published in Atlan's book on the Side mint and included in a couple Malloy sales:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575524[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>WWII & Numismatics & Collector Tags</b>:</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually have a sub-collection of numismatists affected by WWII (including being killed, sent to exile, imprisoned, and having fought in the militaries of both sides). It includes at least a dozen or more different collectors (including the Salton Collection & Library, recently sold), with numerous associated coins from their collections, books from their libraries, auction catalogs from the period, and other provenance ephemera (including collector tags).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's one:</p><p><br /></p><p>A collector tag from the collection of Elvira Clain-Stefanelli (1914-2001), in her hand:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575536[/ATTACH]</p><p>She and her husband, Vladimir Clain-Stefanelli (1914-1982) were both imprisoned at Buchenwald Concentration Camp for about 18 months (1943-5) as state enemies because Vladimir's passport had been used by another Nazi enemy to escape.</p><p><br /></p><p>They came to America and spent decades as the Smithsonian's curators of the National Numismatic Collection. Elvira wrote several important books, especially her monumental classic (1985) <i>Numismatic Bibliography</i>. Prior to that, she'd written <i>Select Numismatic Bibliography</i> in 1965.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Clain-Stefanelli's had a huge collection with 1,000s of coins, and often kept dealers tags and little scraps of paper with them, but few were sold with their own hand-written tags. Of my dozens of coins from their collection, this is one of the only ones to come with their tags.</p><p><br /></p><p>Confirming that it was one of their handwriting could've been a challenge. Luckily, I had handwriting samples from both (Vladimir's isn't shown here).</p><p><br /></p><p>My copy of Elvira's 1965 book was signed and inscribed by her to a certain "Mary Reichenbach" (I've been unable to figure out exactly who that is). Happily, the handwriting matches the Quintillus tag above:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575535[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24690170, member: 26430"]Interesting... I don't think I recognize it, but I'll save it in my unidentified tags file in case I ever come across one. I've got one coin from a Karl Kress catalog, but sadly none of the catalogs themselves. (I do see them with some frequency, and have bid on a bunch of duplicates from this period that were sold last year by the ANS Library on ebay, but the bids went higher than I was willing to pay.) Unfortunately, only one Kress catalog has been digitized & published online to my knowledge (17 April 1944, w/ 7 plates ancient, of 12 total): [URL]https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kress1944_04_17/[/URL] (see also [URL='https://www.rnumis.com/house_auctions.php?house=KRSS&db_minyr=1844&db_maxyr=2023&dbcountry=All%20Countries']rNumis/Kress[/URL]) But there are several more available catalogs from the Kress predecessor, Otto Helbing Nachf.: see [URL='https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/service/heiopensearch/treffer.html?fq=-meta_protected_b%3Atrue&qf=&q=&qf=meta_name_txt&q=Otto%20Helbing%20Nachf.&qf=meta_title_txt&q=&qf=meta_subject_txt&q=&resultset_restriction=auto&sort=sort_title_s%20asc&ui_lang=eng']these search results on HEIDI[/URL] or from [URL='https://www.rnumis.com/house_auctions.php?house=HLBG&db_minyr=1844&db_maxyr=2023&dbcountry=All%20Countries']the rNumis page[/URL]. [B]There is an interesting history to this particular firm (Helbing --> Kress). [/B] [I]From my notes (I'll edit in some prior threads if I can find them):[/I] Otto Helbing founded the firm in 1878 (retired 1912). He was part of the famous numismatic Hirsch family. His nephews Moritz Hirsch (d. 1914) and Heinrich Hirsch (1868-1941) got their start at Helbing. Gerhard Hirsch (1903–1982, son of Moritz) was co-owner of the business until the Nazis forced him out and arrested him c. 1937-9 (he survived the war and started a new firm in 1953 which survives today as G. Hirsch Nachf., which [URL='https://coinsweekly.com/germanys-oldest-coin-dealerships/']considers itself the continuation of Helbing and Germany's oldest dealership[/URL] -- I think today owned by G. Hirsch's niece or another relative). It was a Jewish business, so the Nazis seized and gave it to Karl Kress. (There's been some discussion & confusion about Kress' role & identity; there was a German art photographer by that name who was a POW of the Allies & worked with "The Monuments Men," but apparently that's not him.) In the 1940s the firm was used to liquidate coins seized by the Nazis from the Jews (or assets that people were forced to sell). By the 1960s, however, the coins being sold are not considered to have a "red flag provenance" (which could mean investigate further to make sure they're not on a looted property list). I have one coin from Kress, this is from Kress 121 (4 Dec 1961), Lot 198, a Pomegranate Stater from Pamphylia, Side. I'd love to check Kress 121 for any consignor or prov. info: [ATTACH=full]1575525[/ATTACH] It was later published in Atlan's book on the Side mint and included in a couple Malloy sales: [ATTACH=full]1575524[/ATTACH] [B]WWII & Numismatics & Collector Tags[/B]: I actually have a sub-collection of numismatists affected by WWII (including being killed, sent to exile, imprisoned, and having fought in the militaries of both sides). It includes at least a dozen or more different collectors (including the Salton Collection & Library, recently sold), with numerous associated coins from their collections, books from their libraries, auction catalogs from the period, and other provenance ephemera (including collector tags). Here's one: A collector tag from the collection of Elvira Clain-Stefanelli (1914-2001), in her hand: [ATTACH=full]1575536[/ATTACH] She and her husband, Vladimir Clain-Stefanelli (1914-1982) were both imprisoned at Buchenwald Concentration Camp for about 18 months (1943-5) as state enemies because Vladimir's passport had been used by another Nazi enemy to escape. They came to America and spent decades as the Smithsonian's curators of the National Numismatic Collection. Elvira wrote several important books, especially her monumental classic (1985) [I]Numismatic Bibliography[/I]. Prior to that, she'd written [I]Select Numismatic Bibliography[/I] in 1965. The Clain-Stefanelli's had a huge collection with 1,000s of coins, and often kept dealers tags and little scraps of paper with them, but few were sold with their own hand-written tags. Of my dozens of coins from their collection, this is one of the only ones to come with their tags. Confirming that it was one of their handwriting could've been a challenge. Luckily, I had handwriting samples from both (Vladimir's isn't shown here). My copy of Elvira's 1965 book was signed and inscribed by her to a certain "Mary Reichenbach" (I've been unable to figure out exactly who that is). Happily, the handwriting matches the Quintillus tag above: [ATTACH=full]1575535[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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