40200

Rare Tobacco Money, One Ex Gibbs

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 675.00 USD
Rare Tobacco Money, One Ex Gibbs
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250.00USD+ buyer's premium (50.00)
This item SOLD at 2021 Mar 16 @ 07:31UTC-7 : PDT/MST

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Title: Rare Tobacco Money, One Ex Gibbs
Description: Two rare antique examples of tobacco money are present in this lot: (1) a coil of tobacco about 8 feet long, circa 1850-1880, from Angola; wrapped in fiber, with coils fastened together with pegs. See Stuart Mosher, The Story of Money, 1936, Fig.10, and Opitz, p. 353 (illustrated, bottom left); (2) a twisted section of tobacco over a foot long, from New Hebrides (?); illustrated in NNP edition, https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/541824, p. 588, bottom left.
Low Estimate: 300
High Estimate: 675
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Pedigree/Collection: Tobacco coil ex Paul Dillingham, ex Howard Gibbs Collection with his label: “Portuguese-Africa, Angola, About 1850-80. Coiled tobacco - about 8 foot long. Wrapped with fibre and coils fastened together with pegs. Ex Rare. From Melville Collection (sic), Buffalo Museum of Science." (Howard Gibbs wrote in 1944 that the Melville Collection, exhibited at a World's Fair in California, was acquired by the Buffalo Musuem of Science in the 1930s for the Knox Collection.) Very old.