拍品描述： Robert M. Martin Connecticut Coppers Research Archive. Approximately 2000 leaves stored in eight 3-ring binders.These eight binders represent Robert’s life’s work—nearly five decades of research on the Connecticut copper series. Robert would copy, cut and paste onto sturdy 8.5”x11” 3-hole punched pages auction appearances, fixed price listings, reports from fellow collectors, images, emails, articles, photocopies from the Hall manuscripts and just about any information he could find about Connecticut coppers—die marriages, history, and technical details. In addition to items pasted onto the rule 8.5”x11” pages, there are misc. cuttings, letters, emails, and photos in packets in the front of each binder. The core of the compilation work was done between the 1970s and the 1990s, with seemingly very few items added afterward, while there are a few items pasted in as recently as the 2010s. The more recent research is generally in the packets in the fronts and backs of the binders. Robert has at least one page for every die marriage known in the Connecticut Copper series, including ones that have been delisted, except maybe for the more recently discovered “Bungtowns,” though we did notice some copies of work related to these. In these pages we find not only auction listings and fixed price listings, but Robert links up reappearances of coins in multiple venues, and documents coins plated in the major references like Crosby, Miller, Vlack, Breen and Taxay. After Robert’s death, these binders ended up in the hands of the American Numismatic Society, where they were scanned for the Newman Numismatic Portal, posted online, but then removed when Robert’s family asked for the return of the binders and the removal of the NNP postings. These eight binders are the Connecticut Coppers pedigree research that everyone wishes they had but were too daunted by the task.<p>Here is a rough table of contents:<p>Binder 1: 1785 Miller 1-E through 1786 Miller 8-O.1<p>Binder 2: 1787 Miller 1.1-A through 1787 Miller 26-kk.1<p>Binder 3: 1787 Miller 27-a.1 through 1787 Miller 33.19-q<p>Binder 4: 1787 Miller 33.20-Z.9 through 1787 Miller 41-ii<p>Binder 5: 1787 Miller 42-kk.2 through 1788 Ryder 129-I; Brockages; Counterstamps; Retooled Connecticuts and State Coppers; Double Headed Connecticuts; Uniface Strike Connecticut.<p>Binder 6: Photocopies of research related to Connecticut Coppers from the major reference works on Colonials and Connecticut Coppers, copies of generally relevant articles on Connecticuts from CNL and other periodicals, photocopies of the biographies of collectors from major name sale auction catalogs, photocopies of and research on the old collector tickets that so fascinated Robert, research on the Hall Collection of Connecticuts.<p>Binders 7 and 8: Glossy color images by Bill Noyes of nearly 600 Connecticut Coppers in the collections of the American Numismatic Society; Colonial Coin Collectors Club certificates with images of 18 significant Connecticut Coppers from the collection of Eric P. Newman and 16 pieces of Massachusetts Silver Coinage from the collection of Robert Martin. Generally arranged with photos of four coins per leaf.<p>Even with the utility of modern, digital technologies, recreating this research and putting it into a usable and easy to access format would take months of non-stop labor. Here is an amazing research dossier that is an incredibly solid foundation for further research into the Connecticut Coppers series, an indispensable tool in creating the next great Connecticut Coppers collection.From the Robert M. Martin Collection.<p>Please Note: The entire lot will be available for viewing only in our California office. Only a sample will be taken for viewing in our New York office and at the Baltimore Convention Center.