Abbott, Joseph Edward Potts, 1882-1904 (Counsellor at Law, [and] Prosecutor of Pleas of Atlantic County, May's Landing, New Jersey) [ANS Chapman brothers business correspondence]

Abbott, Joseph Edward Potts, 1882-1904 (Counsellor at Law, [and] Prosecutor of Pleas of Atlantic County, May's Landing, New Jersey) [ANS Chapman brothers business correspondence]

Author: Abbott, Joseph Edward Potts,

Year: 1869

17.5 cubic feet (19 boxes)_The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence mostly regarding bids, payments, lists of coins sent on approval, and other matters having to do with the buying and selling of coins, including about twelve cubic feet of letters received by the firm S.H. & H. Chapman, still folded and in envelopes, mostly arranged alphabetically by the correspondent’s last name and dating primarily from 1902 to 1904, but with some from as early as 1886 and as late as 1916; four letterpress copybooks containing copies of correspondence sent (1883-1890); four file folders of later letters (1927-1930); and three file folders of correspondence of Henry Chapman’s business dating from the time after his death when his wife Helen was running the company (1943-1949). Also includes fifteen Henry and S.H. Chapman auction catalogs, some annotated and used as bid books (1879-1932); Henry Chapman’s “Black Book,” or “Men Reported Bad,” which lists names and addresses of collectors whose names had been reported to him by other dealers as poor risks (circa 1904-1906); materials relating to the December 1921 John Story Jenks sale catalog, including annotated page proofs, an annotated