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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 24616234, member: 112&quot;]As John mentioned above in post #7 the individual coins were simply wrapped in tissue paper, placed in a small box and sent to the buyer. While I don&#039;t have any pics of originals from that time period the paper and boxes looked similar to these from the late &#039;30s and early &#039;40s, which John also mentioned -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1564975[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But they did not use cellophane sleeves like you see there.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was also fairly common in the 1800&#039;s for Proof Sets, owned by collectors of the time, to be sold at auction much like they are today.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1564976[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Only on rare occasions, and typically for Presentation sets like this one for the King of Siam -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1564977[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Other than that is was plain boxes and tissue paper.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A hundred years later things like this were more common -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1564978[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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