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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 671022, member: 66&quot;]Another couple of really good auction catalogs would be Sept 1986 Robinson S Brown sale and the 1989 Jack Robinson sale, both from Superior Galleries.&nbsp; Once again almost every large cent variety, every lot plated, and the diagnostics for every variety listed.&nbsp; (There is also a 1996 Robinson S Brown Sale from Superior that is also very good and which has even more of the NC varieties.&nbsp; It is good but I still like the 1986 sale better.&nbsp; The 1996 sale is the most complete set of early date varieties that has ever been auctioned.&nbsp; It will hold that record until next month when the Dan Holmes sale is conducted.)</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can I would DEFINITELY get a set of the Dan Holmes catalogs.&nbsp; Dan&#039;s set is the most complete set ever assembled&nbsp; It is missing only one Early date variety, 1793 NC-5 which is unique in the ANS collection, the middle date set is complete, and the late date set is missing only one variety, 1851 N-42 which is also unique and the owner is unwilling to sell it to Dan so he can complete the set.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;The Holmes catalogs have one advantage over the 86 RSB sale and that is that the photograghy is better, but the RSB and Jack Robinson catalogs have the advantage that they list diagnostics and some die state information for each variety.&nbsp; The ideal catalog would have been Holmes pictures with RSB style descriptions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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