| Description |
Heath Counterfeit Detector First Pocket Edition, Newman 1-P-11Boston: Heath, 1864. First edition, eleventh 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. Minor stains to cloth; near fine. Scarce. Estimate $400. Ex: George C. Hopkins, with his signature dated August 1865; ANA President Nelson T. Thorson, with his bookplate. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society.
Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15248 (realized $180).
Heritage link: http://www.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1283&lotIdNo=11112 |
