Recently scanned by Newman Portal is the inventory of colonial paper money from the F.C.C. Boyd estate. Michael Hodder wrote of the Boyd collectionin the Ford III (Stack's, 5/2004) catalog: "Despite not having many reference texts to assist him, he built the basis for what may be the most comprehensiveprivate collection of Colonial American paper currency ever formed." Eric P. Newman was able to personally inspect portions of the collection as they were sentto him for review, c. 1963, by New Netherlands (Charles Wormser and John J. Ford, Jr.), who handled the Boyd estate.

The file includes correspondence related to possible acquisitions by Newman. This appears to have not occurred, and the Ford sale catalogs indicate thatmany pieces were acquired by Ford from the Boyd estate. Numerous examples from the Boyd/Ford collection were used for plate images in Newman's Early PaperMoney of America (first edition, 1967), and these likely trace to this period in the early-1960s when Newman had access to the material. The inventoryincludes notes by Walter Breen, who would have been enlisted by New Netherlands for the task.

Link to the F.C.C. Boyd Colonial paper money inventory:
https://archive.org/details/boydfccinventory1963epnresearch

Link to John J. Ford, Jr., sale catalogs:
https://archive.org/details/newmannumismatic?and%5B%5D=%22john+j.+ford%2C+jr.+collection%22&sin=