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Frank Grove Collection
jdmern
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I'm cataloging a pretty great collection for an estate right now, where the late owner kept meticulous records of their purchases. Several pieces were marked as ex Frank Grove, and I was able to find some of the pieces in the catalog of the 1986 Superior Auction but not all of them, including some fairly significant pieces. Does anyone know if there was another auction that featured his collection?
Justin Meunier
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Good question! Are they coins or medals?
Many of the "Grove plate" medals I have seen were not in his collection, but belonged to others who let him document and/or photograph for his books. If you look at his medals books, he indicates in whose collection various documented pieces were from. Some of those pieces were actually from his collection, but I don't recall any particular sale of his collection.
Check the Pradeau sales
Latin American Collection
Was Frank Grove a dealer or "just a collector"?
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
He was an author and a collector. Not a dealer. And I believe he lived in Guadalajara.
Coins and proclamation medals, mostly
Thanks for the tip, will do some research there!
Justin Meunier
Boardwalk Numismatics
Procs I can understand. But I don’t believe he had an “important” collection, hence no big sale with his name.
It seems there was one Superior Sale in 1986 that was part? of his collection, as well as the collection of Robert Grover
https://archive.org/details/frankgroverobert1986supe/page/52/mode/2up
Justin Meunier
Boardwalk Numismatics
Clearly, he had few nice Iturbide medals.