MEYER Henri - Lot 557

MEYER Henri Catalog of the sale of the H. M. collection. "Henri Meyer French royal and seigniorial coins. Coins and medals from Alsace. Geographical table and list of auction prices. Paris, May 26-June 14, 1902. Bound in burgundy red cloth in 4°. 3602 lots and 32 plates Very rare. Very good condition. In 1902, the collection assembled by Henri Meyer, acquired and donated to the Bibliothèque nationale by Carlos de Besteigui, consisted of 717 coins and 428 medals, tokens and mereaux. This collection is highly representative of Alsatian numismatics in the Middle Ages and modern times: landgraviate of Upper Alsace under Habsburg rule with the Ensisheim workshop, bishopric and town of Strasbourg, towns of Colmar, Haguenau, Mulhouse, Thann, Molsheim, town and abbey of Wissembourg, abbey of Murbach and Lure, counties of Sarrewerden, Weinbourg and Hanau-Lichtenberg, numerous medieval anepigraphic denarii and bracteates. Henri Meyer. Descended from an Alsatian family of Mulhouse-area manufacturers of printed and Indian fabrics, active since the 18th century and allied with the great names in this sector (Dollfuss, Engel, Hartmann, Koechlin, Thierry, Schlumberger, among others), Abraham Henri Meyer was born in Illzach, near Mulhouse, on February 8, 1830. An industrialist himself in the textile sector, after the 1870-1871 war he chose to set up a fabric factory in Ourscamp in the Oise region. After his death, his heirs dispersed the collection.