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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 6234977, member: 26430&quot;]Apologies for a tangent, I get excited about cool provenances -- especially one on an old envelope/partial stamp! I have dreams that someday there will be a database of &quot;old tickets,&quot; &quot;dealer flip inserts,&quot; and known collectors, where researchers or collectors can figure out who &amp; where &quot;Lennox&quot; was in 1911. Or &quot;Andrew in St. Louis, 1965.&quot; What are the meanings of all of the hand-written abbreviations and notations and symbols on the BCD Collection&#039;s voluminous round tags? And who must have printed out these flip inserts, based on font size &amp; style?</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps, I fantasize, the <a href="https://www.coinbooks.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinbooks.org/" rel="nofollow">Numismatic Bibliomania Society</a> will develop a searchable database &amp; it&#039;ll run out of the Washington University (St. Louis) Library&#039;s &quot;Newman Numismatic Portal&quot; .... where, out of curiosity, I recently looked up the &quot;old collector ticket&quot; described in a <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Lot.aspx?LOT_ID=27622" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Lot.aspx?LOT_ID=27622" rel="nofollow">CNG lot</a> as noting, &quot;Royal 12/28/51, #833&quot;. I used Martin Gengerke&#039;s &quot;American Numismatic Auctions&quot; (via the <a href="https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/" rel="nofollow">NNPortal at Wash U</a>) to learn that it must&#039;ve been Royal Coin Company&#039;s (Boston, MA) Sale #72 (28 Dec, 1951, presumably Lot 833). Soon enough, I hope, such obscure catalogs will also be digitized so the lots can be individually checked.</p><p><br /></p><p>But what I&#039;d really love is it if such a database also existed for looking up &quot;Lennox, 1911&quot; -- who he was and what other coins he may have labeled. I predict it will be a reality, so everyone who is saving up these collector tickets (and sharing photographs of them) is doing a great service for the provenance/pedigree researchers of the future! And blessing us pedigree-geeks with great excitement in the meantime![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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