| Description |
Heath Counterfeit Detector First Pocket Edition, Newman 1-P-7Boston: Heath, 1864. First edition, seventh printing. 16mo, original blindstamped dark brown cloth; front cover lettered in gilt. 32 pages; 10 engraved plates of bank note design elements, with original tissue guards, interspersed in the text, with plate 6 serving as a frontispiece, plate 4 printed in red ink, plate 8 printed in green ink, an unnumbered plate being an engraved folding Heath bank note facsimile, and a final unnumbered plate being a folding facsimile of a counterfeit $5 Bank of Orleans note taken from captured engraved plates. One leaf and one plate detached from spine and a little chipped; binding extremities worn. Very good or so. This and the following are the rarest of the first Pocket Edition printings. Estimate $400 Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society.
Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15246 (realized $720).
Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11110 |
