Four important merchants in the Civil War in one advertisement
DCW
Posts: 7,807 ✭✭✭✭✭
I was conducting some research and encountered this great advertisement in the New York Tribune, dated April 8, 1861:
Civil War token collectors will note four well-known merchants, advertising together here. Each of them were prolific issuers of their own storecards. Below I have listed examples for each.
Alfred S. Robinson
Edward Cogan
M.L. Marshall
John K. Curtis
I just love exonumia for this reason. Endless research that brings these little discs to life! It's a small hobby. Even back then, before the telephone and internet connected us all, several of these coins dealers knew each other. So fascinating to me to find them all in one ad.
Thanks for reading
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
17
Comments
Kewl!
Very kewl indeed! That must have been an interesting group!
I especially LOVE
the M.L. Marshall token!
Toys, Fancy Goods, Fishing Tackle and Rare Coin.
That must have been quite the establishment!
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
Great find @DCW!
Image having drinks with that group before and after the auction?
Such a tease, to announce an auction and not share the catalog!
https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflarge00leon
It looks like the top lot in the sale was #685, "1794 Silver Dollar, very fine, almost impossible to obtain.", sold for $18.50.
In comparison, the next lot was a "1795 Flowing Hair, fine", which sold for $1.125. That less than 13 cents above face value.
The second-highest might have been #755, "1858 Proof set of silver and cent", for $13.25
The proceeds for the sale were a bit over $400 in total, for over 1000 lots.
FWIW, two of the top three entries in the 1794 $1 condition census were in multi-generational collections in the 1860s, so they couldn't be the one from this sale. None of the 7 other examples listed as AU-58 or higher are traced to the 1860s.
Here is another. This is the JNT Levick known for the famous "Smoking of the Weed" token. He's visiting his friend, Alfred S. Robinson.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."