Lot 9233: 1850 Singerly's Autographical Detector

Singerly's Lithographic Chart of Signatures: Being a Supplement to the Western Review, Containing a Fac Simile of the Signatures of the President andCashier of almost every Bank in the U.S. Pittsburgh: Benj. Singerly, Publisher and Proprietor, Review Building, 1850. 32 pages. 8to. 26.5 x 17 cm. Brownwraps. Now finely bound in quarter blue morocco by Sam Ellenport with blue marbled paper boards. Gilt spine title with raised bands. Contents complete andpages relatively fine and clean. Cover wrap with chipped off lower right corner. Likely, next to impossible to obtain another.

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1850 Singerly's Lithographic Chart of Signatures. Fine Contents and Finely Bound.(https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-GRNSK)

Lot 9247: Ormsby's 1862 Harvest of Counterfeiters
Ormsby, W. L. Cycloidal Configurations or the Harvest of Counterfeiters. Containing Matter of the Highest Importance Concerning Paper Money.Also Explaining the Unit System of Bank Note Engraving. New York. Published by W.L. Ormsby, 50 Wall Street. Ca. 1862. (3), 45. Front green paper wrap(rear wrap is missing). Original green front wrap with deterioration, now skillfully mounted upon a paper sheet. Page 26 with three attachments slips asoriginally from the Ford Library. Octavo. Now beautifully bound in full black morocco by Sam Ellenport. Gilt cover perimeter bordering, gilt spine title andraised bands. Marbled interior covers. Gorgeous presentation. One of the extreme rarities of this genre. There are only a few confirmed. This example is exFord and was subsequently sold in Kolbe & Fanning Sale 129, lot 510. At the time, it was only the third auction appearance in 35 years. There was no example inthe Newman Library Part XI sale. The impressive binding amplifies this immensely important rarity. It appears quite infrequently, especially in comparison withhis large opus with engraved plates. That often exceeds $3,000 or more, yet is relatively available. This is a great opportunity.

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1862 Ormsby's Cycloidal Configurations or "The Harvest of Counterfeiters...". VeryGood Contents Finely Bound. (https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-GRLXU)

Lot 9283: Heath's Microscope

1877 Heath's Compound Microscope with Original Distribution Box. Extremely Fine. Enclosed in Custom Leather Solander Box

Heath, Laban. Heath's Improved Adjustable Compound Microscope, [Patented, Dec. 25, 1877], For Examining Bank Notes, Minerals, Flowers,Seeds, Linen, etc., etc. Folding stand with legs decorated with scrollwork, glass magnifying lens which tilts, stored in the original distribution cardboardbox, with pictorial green cover label, as issued. The microscope when folded open is 12.5 x 5.5 cm wide at the base and 6 cm in height. The lens has a diameterof 4.5 cm. Box label with titles, illustration of folded out microscope, and patent date. The microscope and its box are housed in a three quarter brownleather solander box with raised bands, spine compartments lettered in gilt, designed as version "A" as designed and executed by Sam Ellenport.

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1877 Heath's Compound Microscope with Original Distribution Box. Extremely Fine. Enclosed inCustom Leather Solander Box (https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-GROK8)

Lot 9287: 1866 Naramore Photographic Detectors in Original Box

Naramore, R[obert] C. Naramore's United States Treasury and National Bank Note Detector. Pocket Edition. Being Exact Copies of the Genuine Plates,Photographed from the Proof Sheets, By Permission of Hon. H. McCulloch, Secretary U.S. Treasury. Published by American Photograph Co., Bridgeport,Conn. [1866]. 18 individual 10 cm. x 6.3 cm photographic cards, housed in original two piece, blue Cardboard Box with gold lettering. Nearly all of the cardsin this set are choice condition. However, a few have some minor mounting remnants at the top of the backs. A full set in original box is rarely seen. Originalcardboard box expertly repaired by Alan Grace, 12/1995. Now housed in a sumptuous, octavo size navy half leather solander box, marbled boards, five raisedbands, leather spine label, spine compartments decorated in gilt, and blind tooling by Alan Grace. Beautifully made with snug compartment for the original boxand the cards it contains. Ex: Charles Davis Sale 23, December 14, 1991, lot 456.

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1866 Naramore's Photographic Detector Set in Original Box. Fine. Enclosed in Finely CraftedClamp Shell Box (https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-GROL8)

Lot 9242: 1850 Henry Foote Manuscript
1850 H. C. Foote's Manuscript Concerning Bank Note Rules. Fine. Enclosed in Leather Clamp Shell Box.

Titles and Specifications: Foote, H(enry) C. Four page manuscript letter, May 1, [18] /50 to Mr. J. C. Hutchins. Ink manuscript on blue paper, folded. 20 x30 cm pages. Lengthy discourse concerning notes from the Strafford Bank, [Dover], New Hampshire printed by New England Bank Note Co. and using Perkins SteelStereotype Plates. The false notes investigated are compared to Foote's seven "rules" as eventually specified in his published works. We believethis letter may precede the publications, hence its importance as a foundational document of Foote's eventual and important publications. Fine, normalfolds. Enclosed now in beautifully made blue morocco clamp shell box with cloth sides. Gilt title and raised bands. Priceless, with important content relatedto Perkin's technology and Foote's work.

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1850 H. C. Foote's Manuscript Concerning Bank Note Rules. Fine. Enclosed in Leather ClampShell Box. (https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-GRLV3)

Lot 9245: 1861 Peyton's How to Detect Counterfeit Bank Notes
1861 Peyton's How to Detect Counterfeit Bank Notes in Decorated Cloth. Very Fine.

Titles and Specifications: Peyton, George. How to Detect Counterfeit Bank Notes; or, an Illustrated Treatise on the Detection of Counterfeit, Altered, andSpurious Bank Notes, with original bank note plates, engraved expressly for this work by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch, and Edson, bank note engravers of New York.[3rd Edition]: Sixth Thousand. New York: Published for the Author, 1861. 54 pages, 4 finely engraved plates. Hardbound in Black Decorated Cloth, titled oncover and spine in gilt, Full gilt page edges. Octavo.15.0 x 23.5 cm. Very rare edition; one other known to us in this form. This example ex Champa (August,1990). Ex: John Bergman. Expertly rebacked and repaired by Alan Grace via A. Champa. Handsome penned signature of E. M. (or H.) Tiffany on the front freeendpaper. The contents and plates excellent. A gorgeous book and very underrated.

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1861 Peyton's How to Detect Counterfeit Bank Notes in Decorated Cloth. Very Fine.(https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-GRLX0)

Lot 9264: 1870 Heath's Pocket Detector
Heath's Pocket Detector - 1870 Edition. Unlisted Newman 3-P-3.8. Fine.

Titles and Specifications: Heath, Laban. Heath's Greatly Improved and Enlarged Infallible Government Counterfeit Detector, At Sight. The Only InfallibleMethod of Detecting Counterfeit, Spurious, and Altered Bank Notes, Government Bonds, & etc., Applicable to all Banks in the United States and Canadas, as Nowin Circulation or that May be Issued, With Genuine Designs from the Original Government Plates. By Authority from the United States Treasury Department, andthe American, National, and Continental Bank Note Cos., New York and Boston. Third Edition, Revised and Corrected. Boston, Mass. and Washington, D.C.:Published by Laban Heath & Co., No. 30 Hanover St., Boston, to whom all orders should be addressed, 1870. 40 pages includes 2 pages of magnifying glassillustrations, 13 plates includes a double page fractional currency plate, counterfeit $100 Legal Tender, counterfeit $5 Legal Tender. Blue-green cloth,lettered in gilt, blind stamping, 12 mo.

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Heath's Pocket Detector - 1870 Edition. Unlisted Newman 3-P-3.8. Fine.(https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-GRMFY)

Lot 9280: 1869 American Bond Detector

1869 American Bond Detector Inscribed by Nehemiah G. Ordway. Fine.

Titles and Specifications: American Bond and Currency Detector Company. [aka Laban Heath]. The American Bond Detector; and Complete History of the UnitedStates Government Securities; Issued Under the Sanction of the United States Treasury Department, and Containing Superb Illustrations, in Genuine Tints,Printed at the Treasury Department, From the Original Dies in the Possession of the Government, of All the Bonds Issued Under the Acts of Congress from July17, 1861, to March 3, 1868, Together with a Full Description of all Genuine Plates, and Complete Rules for the Detection of Counterfeits; also, Valuable Platesof Existing Coins, and Important Statistical Tables. Washington, D.C.:

Published by the American Bond and Currency Detector Company, to Whom all Orders Should be Addressed, 1869. Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year1869, by Nehemiah George Ordway, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of New-Hampshire. (6), 100 pages, 22steel-plate intaglio plates of bonds and bond design elements, 9 plates of American and foreign coins metallically tinted for the coin's metal by J.Haehnlen, PR., Goldsmiths' Hall Philada. Bound in three quarter brown leather and green cloth, large oblong folio decorated in gilt. Uniquely inscribedbond detector reading "Hon. Henry L. Dawes, with Compliments of N.G. Ordway." Contents bright and vivid overall and superior to most of the largebond detectors known. Often broken up, complete examples are difficult to obtain and this inscribed example has a particular uniqueness to it. Ex: CharlesDavis Auction of Duplicates from the Library of the ANA, July 14, 2007, lot 7.

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1869 American Bond Detector Inscribed by Nehemiah G. Ordway. Fine.(https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-GROJC)