WHAT DO '93 COLUMBIAN TICKETS SELL FOR? 2008 CATALOG 300 TICKETS/PRICES LOT #191

Description

We still have several outstanding 1893 World's Columbian Exposition tickets available, but this lot is NOT for tickets on sale; rather it is the Heritage Auctions catalog for the 2008 sale of the Norman Bolotin collection of approximately 300 different Columbian tickets.
That sale, which grossed about ,000 NEARLY 13 years ago, included numerous one-of-a-kind tickets and the highgest priced World's Columbian ticket ever sold--a unique Camera Obscura Midway Plaisance ticket that brought more than ,000!
Also included were such rarities as the only exposition-ending grand ball for all Midway employees and residents of the international communities along the Plaisance. One of the only two known Oriental Odeon tickets was included; the other was part of the John Kennel Columbian Collection currently in the second year of sales conducted by The History Bank. In this sale we have sold MORE THAN HALF OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE RARE TICKET EVER SOLD! Once unheard of prices for tickets, the Kennel Collection included numerous rarities at ,000-,500 EACH!
This 2008 catalog, and more important, the complete record of all prices realized, provides a unique reference for the Columbian and/or Midway ticket collector or specialist. The only known ticket reference for Columbian tickets is the Doolin booklet published in 1980. You will find more detailed photos and sales data here than most anywhere, and for the 300 tickets that comprised the Bolotin collection.
Not coincidentally, we--The History Bank--are also in the midst of writing/publishing a book of Columbian rarities, just the beginning of which will include information on Bolotin's ticket collection and other sales/prices realized from the 1970s-through the 2000s. The book is described below.
Again, this sale is for the original color 8-page catalog from Heritge which accompanied the sale of the Bolotin collection in 2008 plus a dozen pages of details and prices realized compiled by Bolotin/The History Bank to accompany the Heritage material.
Free Shipping: Please note that we will send this literature to you postpaid.
A Long-Awaited New Publication About Rare Columbian Tickets and Medals
Our next book, the third we have written about our favorite world's fair (the first, in hardcover and limited edition in 1993 for the fair's centennial, the second, a comprehensive history of the Midway Plaisance, was publislhed in 2017); tentatively scheduled for publication in 2021, the third book will be the first of the three aimed at the collecting community and will include substantial information on Columbian rarities and never previously listed TICKETS and MEDALS/TOKENS. The book, in the early stages of compilation and writing, will include several chapters on numismatic and ticket topics, the first-ever publication of these rarities, a lengthy (and heavily illustrated) chapter on the myriad medals featuring Columbus Landing Scenes, the most complete ever listings of ALL known Day of Sale and Stand tickets, an array of statistical information to complement the medals and tickets listed and much more.
This new book will also include very detailed information--photos, listings, prices realized--from the vast John Kennel Collection of Columbiana we have been privileged to be cataloging and selling since the Spring of 2019. The collection of the late collector included an estimated 4,000+ items and as of September 2020 we still have more than 1,000 items yet to photograph and offer for sale.
This book will offer dramatically more information than any of the other hobby guides published thus far. This includes the early 1960s Nathan Eglit catalog of Columbian medals (and other souvenirs), with a total of nearly 600 entries, yet well over 100 medals discovered since Eglit's book appeared more than 50 years ago. The Kennel Collection included more thanhalf of these previously uncataloged/unknown medals. The 1980 booklet/cataog of tickets (Doolin) was an amazingly complete LISTING of known tickets as of four decades ago, but included minimal data and NO photos. And since its publication, The History Bank has discovered perhaps another 100± tickets about which NOTHING has ever been published. Again, the Kennel Collection has been a major contributor to this information and Columbian knowledge. Finally the third publication with 100 total Columbian medals listed is the Hibler & Kappen So-Called Dollar book, which includes about 400 total listings, 100 of which are from the 1893 fair. While the book was issued in a revised edition in 2008, it contained no new listings from the 100 included in the original 1963(!) edition.
These three sources have offered the base of information available to medal and ticket collectors, but by the mere nature of when they were published (1960s to 1980)--40 years ago at the most recent--information, photos,values and more have been sorely missed by collectors. This new book by Norman Bolotin and The HIstory Bank will take collectors into the present with the inclusion of medals and tickets which more than doubles the known number of Columbian tickets and adds 1/3-to-1/2 more medals than previously known.
You can contact The History Bank for more information on the forthcoming book and follow our listings on ebay over the coming months in which we will offer updates on the book. We also will include valuable text on Columbian collectibles and the fair's history in our ongoing blog, The World's Columbian Journal, which is strictly a site for historical information and
not sales
of collectibles.