After having fun reading part of the volume they brought to the preview, I attended the first part of the auction and acquired lot 113.

My budget was helped by having no competition in the room. I didn't take notes, so I hesitate to test my faulty memory by reciting specific lots, but I noted that the American Numisamtic Society acquired a couple of important items (including some of the Clain-Stefanelli material) and that another item went for $32,500, leading to a few shaking heads at the extravagance of it all; the estimate, though 4 figures, was much lower.

Unfortunately, I'd taken time off from work to attend, so I rushed off well before the end of the auction. (Yes, I'd engineered the timing of my work trip in part so that I could spend some time at NYINC, but nonetheless, there was dead communications equipment to be poked at elsewhere in Manhattan.)

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:KOLBE & FANNING'S 2013 NEW YORK BOOK SALE A SUCCESS(ww.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n02a02.html)