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Correspondence Relating to the Career of G.F.C. Smillie. (1...
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Correspondence Relating to the Career of G.F.C. Smillie. (1) letter to Smillie from engraver Charles Skinner regarding an offer of employment, dated July 8, 1882; (2) letter to Smillie from engraver S. Alonzo Schoff, dated Feb. 12, 1890; (3) letter to Smillie from engraver Robert Ponickau accepting an offer of employment, dated June 12, 1893; (4) letter to Smillie from engraver S. Alonzo Schoff regarding an engraving of the Duke of York, dated Jan 2, 1900; (5) letter to Smillie from engraver S. Alonzo Schoff regarding the Duke of York and other engravings, dated 1901; (6) letter to Smillie from engraver Charles Skinner regarding the purchase of portrait engravings, dated Nov. 6, 1902; (7) letter to Smillie from engraver Charles Skinner regarding acquiring proofs of the new series of postage stamps, dated Feb. 14, 1903; (8) letter to Smillie from engraver Charles Skinner regarding a payment receipt that had been made to his uncle James in 1833, dated Jan. 15, 1915; (9) letter to Smillie from bank note company principal John A. Lowell regarding viewing Smillie's presidential portraits, dated Feb. 16, 1915; (10) letter to Smillie from engraver S. Alonzo Schoff, with a notation in Smillie's hand calling Schoff's portrait engraving of Ralph Waldo Emerson the "best piece of portrait engraving executed in America," undated; (11) letter to Smillie from artist Charles Knight regarding acquiring a photograph of William McKinley to use as a model for an engraving with cover, dated April 8, 1904; (12) letter to Smillie from artist Charles Knight regarding layouts for bills, dated Oct. 28, 1904; (13) letter to Smillie from artist Charles Knight regarding sketches for bills, dated Nov. 29, 1904; (14) cover labeled "autograph letters of Charles R. Knight, dated Nov. 29, 1904; (15) letter to Smillie from artist Charles Knight regarding "creatures" to be used on proposed currency, dated Feb. 2, 1905. Note: Knight was the artist who drew the bison Pablo, which Marcus W. Baldwin engraved for the fabled Bison Note, the Series 1901 $10 Legal Tender Note; (16) an undated note on Treasury Department stationery labeled in Smillie's hand "Signed dies in stock of Bureau of Eng. & Ptg." Note lists portraits by Alfred Sealey and Lorenzo Hatch; (17) The Collectors Club Philatelist (Vol. XXVII No. 3) July, 1948, which includes Clarence W. Brazer's "Historical Catalog of U.S. Stamp Essays & Proofs" chronicling the output of G.F.C. Smillie Also included in the lot is the July, 1948 issue of the Philatelist with an article on G.F.C. Smillie that includes his photograph. (18 items) Est. 500up (Total: 18 items)
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2001 Cincinnati, OH September (CAA) Sale #269 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
September, 2001
21st-22nd
Friday-Saturday
Bids + Registered Phone Bidders: 4
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