Largest coin auction catalog ever produced?

Michigan

As far as number of lots and pages. Anyone know? I got today the Ira and Larry Goldberg catalog for the pre Long Beach sale.
620 pages and 3397 lots. Seems about the size of a phone book.

For the largest I'm thinking a single one, not a multi day auction with seperate catalogs. >>

Whizzard

Just the last Heritage Signature auction was 447 pages. Shouldn't you measure lots instead??

Pistareen

The old standard used to be Henry Chapman's catalogue of the John Story Jenks sale.

7302 lots
10 days of selling (December 7-17, 1921)
42 plates (!!)

I don't know if this has yet been surpassed. The catalogue is massive, and usually the original bindings are badly shaken just from the weight of all those pages. Further, with its wide variety of world coins, this catalogue served as something like a Krause catalogue for world coins for generations of numismatists.

It's a great addition to any library. I do own a copy (found in a used book store in Columbus, oddly enough) and also own a coin pedigreed to the sale.

Michigan

<< <i>Just the last Heritage Signature auction was 447 pages. Shouldn't you measure lots instead?? >>




Yeah, probably so.

pontiacinf

<< <i>The old standard used to be Henry Chapman's catalogue of the John Story Jenks sale.

7302 lots
10 days of selling (December 7-17, 1921)
42 plates (!!)

I don't know if this has yet been surpassed. The catalogue is massive, and usually the original bindings are badly shaken just from the weight of all those pages. Further, with its wide variety of world coins, this catalogue served as something like a Krause catalogue for world coins for generations of numismatists.

It's a great addition to any library. I do own a copy (found in a used book store in Columbus, oddly enough) and also own a coin pedigreed to the sale. >>



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