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Old Auction Catalogue Madness!
curtislclay:
Hand pricing is always prices realized, in my experience.
The amounts should also give it away: if always even multiples of 5, 10, 100 etc., estimates; if not, prices realized.
Andrew McCabe:
--- Quote from: Carausius on June 26, 2015, 09:34:36 am ---Received in today's mail:
Rodolfo Ratto - Jan 1924 (Coll. Bonazzi), which had been on order. Cover partly detached at spine (I planned to rebind it anyway) but otherwise in fine shape. A splendid catalogue! It is hand priced in light pencil throughout, though I've no way of knowing whether these are prices realized or a bidder's strategy notes.
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100% certainly prices realised. Not even I would have a strategy to bid on each and every coin in a sale.
Riche is what the title page says, but it is Bonazzi. I've an old hand marked copy that says Bonazzi, before John Spring told us so.
curtislclay:
"Riche collection" is simply French for "rich collection". I think I have seen "Riche" cited as though it were the name of the collector, however!
carthago:
--- Quote from: Andrew McCabe on June 26, 2015, 12:08:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: Carausius on June 26, 2015, 09:34:36 am ---Received in today's mail:
Rodolfo Ratto - Jan 1924 (Coll. Bonazzi), which had been on order. Cover partly detached at spine (I planned to rebind it anyway) but otherwise in fine shape. A splendid catalogue! It is hand priced in light pencil throughout, though I've no way of knowing whether these are prices realized or a bidder's strategy notes.
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100% certainly prices realised. Not even I would have a strategy to bid on each and every coin in a sale.
Riche is what the title page says, but it is Bonazzi. I've an old hand marked copy that says Bonazzi, before John Spring told us so.
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--- Quote from: curtislclay on June 26, 2015, 12:16:26 pm ---"Riche collection" is simply French for "rich collection". I think I have seen "Riche" cited as though it were the name of the collector, however!
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Well, there you are! And here I've thought it was Richie Riche's collection all this time. :-[
Carausius:
--- Quote from: curtislclay on June 26, 2015, 11:49:50 am ---Hand pricing is always prices realized, in my experience.
The amounts should also give it away: if always even multiples of 5, 10, 100 etc., estimates; if not, prices realized.
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Quite right, Curtis. I looked through the catalogue again and most of the prices noted are precise (i.e. 3, 7, 9, 36 etc). So, I am confident these are realized prices, though who knows if they are actually correct. I shudder to think of someone relying on the accuracy of my own hand-priced catalogues 80 years from now!
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