Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 2302. Estimate $30.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $30. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Ball, R., Nachf. Antike-Mittelalter-Neuzeit. (Berlin). No, IV. 23 March 1931et seq. 1791 lots, 16 photographic plates, tissue guards. Ancient gold, German. Original printed card covers. Fine condition.

Robert Ball began selling coins in Berlin in 1887, and after his death in 1911 the successor company conducted ten public auctions in the interwar years, 1917-1934. Like so many other German coin firms, Ball Nachf. found the 1930’s did not provide a friendly business climate, and their last dated publication was in 1938.