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[VIRZI. Tom]. |
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Collection of Greek bronzes. 77 photographic prints. |
| Description |
Original photographic prints; (each 24 x 18cm) depicting plaster casts of both obverse and reverse of 2238 coins from the renowned Virzi collection of Bronze coins of Greater Greece and Sicily. These appear to be good photographs of the ORIGINAL photographs of the whole Virzi collection.
Tom Virzi was for some years assistant to the pre-eminent dealer Jacob Hirsch in Munich in the latter years of the 19th century. Bank Leu sold part of the Virzi collection in Zurich, Auction 6, 1973. Other parts were sold, some anonymously, over many years by other houses, including Malloy in 1980; whilst Jacob Hirsch himself sold coins from the Virzi collection (unnamed) in his sale XIX, 11 November 1907 (“…aus dem Besitze eines auswartigen Gelehrten”). This series of photographs would appear to be a record of the entire collection, and, as such, must be of immense interest and value to the serious student of the series. The whole housed in two matching photograph albums, each photographic print contained in a plastic sleeve. At the time of the 1973 sale, original photographs of this tremendous collection were issued by Leu in very few sets, and given out by the company only to their most major clients, as a permanent record of the whole collection, and were almost certainly produced by Sylvia Hurter, Bank Leu’s noted photographer of coins, and their specialist numismatist at the time of the sale. This set is, it seems, a photographic reproduction of those original photographs. Original sets sell for upwards of double this asking price. The difference in quality is not significant.
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275.00 |
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