Recognize any famous collectors on this page?

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• mozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭

  May 7, 2010 8:37AM

  JUST BRADDOCK!
  
  

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• LoveMyLiberty Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭

  May 7, 2010 8:46AM

  Virgil Brand for $95 +.

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• Sonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 7, 2010 8:49AM

  I am not surprised by Virgil Brand's relatively large order---according to QDB, there were some years when Brand's expenditures on numismatics exceeded those of all other U. S. collectors put together. It is also likely that he ordered several of each of whatever he bought, based on what is known about his hoard.

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• LoveMyLiberty Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭

  May 7, 2010 8:58AM

  
  
  << <i>I am not surprised by Virgil Brand's relatively large order---according to QDB, there were some years when Brand's expenditures on numismatics exceeded those of all other U. S. collectors put together. It is also likely that he ordered several of each of whatever he bought, based on what is known about his hoard. >>
  
  
  
  
  You're right, but I wonder if he looked through all of them then kept the really good ones & sent the rest back to the mint
  like some collectors and dealers do today?

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• RWB Posts: 8,082 ✭

  May 7, 2010 9:26AM

  The clip is part of one page in a thick journal listing all the orders for medals and proof coins from 1895-1904. In many instances we can identify proof coin orders by the amount paid. Large orders, like Brand’s are often next to orders totaling 8-cents for one minor proof set. Some collectors included postage and some did not.
  
  As for returns, I doubt there were any.
  
  Maybe, one day, some collector will be leafing through this volume and find the name of an ancestor.
  

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• Sonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 7, 2010 9:46AM

  RWB, in perusing those journal entries, did you run across any other names of well-known collectors of that era (e.g., James Ten Eyck)?

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• RWB Posts: 8,082 ✭

  May 7, 2010 10:05AM

  Many of the "big names" were in the order book. I photographed a page with Alexander Caldwell's 1904 order on it, but few other pages.
  
  Caldwell’s 1904 order (1 gold proof set) is the 6th from the bottom.
  A silver & minor coin proof set cost $2.50 including the dollar. When the dollar was sold out, the sets sold for $1.50. In Dec 1904, Dir Roberts authorized making more proof dollars for collectors and these were sold for $1 to those who had not gotten the dollar earlier.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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