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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24690415, member: 26430&quot;]Here&#039;s an example of a ticket handwriting comparison that I just completed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I showed the Cornelius Vermeule Ticket above -- but I hadn&#039;t worked out a match to the mystery ticket until <i>just now</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was also from the Lockett Collection and has an even older ticket (late 19th century, using the old 1887 edition of <i>Historia Nummorum</i>, not the 1911), on which only the &quot;AE 8&quot; is in Lockett&#039;s hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who&#039;s ticket is that?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575557[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Lockett&#039;s purchase book indicates he bought the coin from &quot;Lincoln&quot; (no date), who was an important London coin dealer from mid-19th to early-20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found the tickets with matching details in an article on the NGC website: &quot;<a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/5129/Ancient-coins-/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/5129/Ancient-coins-/" rel="nofollow">NGC Ancients: A Pedigreed Irish Collection of Ancient Coins</a>,&quot; or &quot;the MacCormack Collection (assembled ca. 1868-1900).&quot; (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=MacCormack+Collection&amp;category=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=MacCormack+Collection&amp;category=1" rel="nofollow">Examples from the collection on ACSearch</a>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>At a glance it may not be obvious that they are in the same hand. But compare the &quot;Obv. Nude bust r.&quot;, the distinctive &quot;Obv&quot; (always upper left), &quot;with&quot; (always &quot;wi th&quot;), distinctive &quot;R,&quot; and the &quot;See&quot; (always lower left) for references, and others. The sharper images are from my ticket, the blurry ones extracted from NGC&#039;s photo of MacCormack tickets:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575555[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Clearly the same hand wrote these two tickets. It&#039;s possibly &quot;MacCormack,&quot; but perhaps both sets were written by a prior collector or dealer -- most likely by one of the Lincolns (of London), or another collector whose coins were sold by Lincoln.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the tickets (mine above, MacCormack below):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575558[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I extracted those reference images from a group photo on the NGC website. I may have to write and see if I can talk to whoever cataloged that collection there:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575559[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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