Don't you just love old collectors labels ?

Whenever I get these I always keep them. Recently I've decided too buy Mylar saflips too put some of my coins in which I feel need to be sealed. Well I've decided the same should go for these labels.

Here they are:
even the recent baldwins ones I think are worth keeping ! Check out that handwriting on the Gibraltar one I think that could well be older than 100 years too !



this is how i store them when I have these:

I recently bought this very nice lot https://fr.numista.com/forum/topic52094.html#p436553 of French coins.
All the coins came with the lables of the previous owner - nothing spectacular but always interesting to see what another collector mentioned on his labels.
But what was really great were the silver coins which came with a second label that looked like being at least 100 years old.
I will try to make pictures of those labels and post them togeather with the coins.

So here are two coins with their labels.
1/4 Franc 1807 I, Napoleon



20 Centimes, Napoleon III



Right now, I don't have a clue yet how to store these labels.
The coins are in a Safe-drawer with boxes much too smal for the labels.
But one thing is clear, I don't want to dispose of them.

Yes, I also can´t throw away labels from previous collectors.

Sometimes I even kept it as it is in my collection, as a sign of respect for the previous owner (well.. who knows if the seller wrote it a minute before packing )
I have no interesting labels to show, I just came across to be solidary with your thread and also to congratulate you for the Gibraltar label, indeed - seems very old and from a very dedicated collector or numismatist.

Very thought provoking and keeping things respectful. I like this thread.

Quote: "maudry"​So here are two coins with their labels.
​1/4 Franc 1807 I, Napoleon
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​20 Centimes, Napoleon III
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​Right now, I don't have a clue yet how to store these labels.
​The coins are in a Safe-drawer with boxes much too smal for the labels.
​But one thing is clear, I don't want to dispose of them.

​very endearing some of those mate. There's no way you would want too seperate them. That handwriting is nothing short of fantastic !

I am like Pietr. I do the same thing. I think it enhances the collection. I certainly hope that someday all the time I put into labels is seen as meaningful enough to save. I was able to buy quite a bit of the Krause Publications world coin holdings so I have coins with amazing descriptions, and from famous dealers and collectors. One of the neatest envelopes I have contains 3 BU Australian 6 pences that Chet Krause himself collected when he was in Australia.

I love the nostalgia...

Quote: "bam777"​Very thought provoking and keeping things respectful. I like this thread.

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Sometimes the labels are just as collectible as the coin they describe. Very interesting thread.

After realising how great these were I've reunited the Gibraltar token this afternoon and will be doing the same with the dewas coin :)

I used to write like that! Well I tried at least.

Anyone who went to school in the days before education was "improved" spent many years learning to write in what used to be called copperplate but is now called cursive. Using a pen with a real split steel nib and an inkwell. There was a little round hole in the desk for the inkwell, in better schools two or even three, blue, black and red. There were two groves, one for pens and one for pencils. Every morning you had deskside inspection by the Prefects and your inkwells had better be full, three sheets of blotting paper centered on your desk and pencils pointing left, pens right. Ruler at the top centre and a small wooden case with a protractor etc. You also had to present ten neatly scrubbed fingernails, and no tide mark on your neck or behind your ears. Your shoes would be polished and your tie done in a neat Windsor knot with the school crest exactly one third of the way down. Transgressions were reported to the House Master and would be punished by cold showers or 30 minutes early "lights out" for the whole dorm which made you very unpopular. Expect to wake up to cold urine in your shoes.

The top of every lower case letter had to align perfectly with every other on the page as well as with the bowl of large form letters. Broad down strokes and light up strokes and sloping ten degrees to the right. Over and over again. I was never particularly good at it, I found I could either write neatly or quickly, but not both. Later I joined the Civil Service where speed writing was the norm, signatures replaced by ciphers, and now I have terrible handwriting unless I force myself to write carefully. What really killed handwriting as a skill though was the introduction of the ball point pen or biro. Might as well try to write with crayons.

I have never came across older coin labels. But look great and I would keep with the coin.
Hey Phil remember these

not sure why they are upside down.

Quote: "pnightingale"​I used to write like that! Well I tried at least.
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​Anyone who went to school in the days before education was "improved" spent many years learning to write in what used to be called copperplate but is now called cursive. Using a pen with a real split steel nib and an inkwell. There was a little round hole in the desk for the inkwell, in better schools two or even three, blue, black and red. There were two groves, one for pens and one for pencils. Every morning you had deskside inspection by the Prefects and your inkwells had better be full, three sheets of blotting paper centered on your desk and pencils pointing left, pens right. Ruler at the top centre and a small wooden case with a protractor etc. You also had to present ten neatly scrubbed fingernails, and no tide mark on your neck or behind your ears. Your shoes would be polished and your tie done in a neat Windsor knot with the school crest exactly one third of the way down. Transgressions were reported to the House Master and would be punished by cold showers or 30 minutes early "lights out" for the whole dorm which made you very unpopular. Expect to wake up to cold urine in your shoes.
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​The top of every lower case letter had to align perfectly with every other on the page as well as with the bowl of large form letters. Broad down strokes and light up strokes and sloping ten degrees to the right. Over and over again. I was never particularly good at it, I found I could either write neatly or quickly, but not both. Later I joined the Civil Service where speed writing was the norm, signatures replaced by ciphers, and now I have terrible handwriting unless I force myself to write carefully. What really killed handwriting as a skill though was the introduction of the ball point pen or biro. Might as well try to write with crayons.

​wow school sounds like it was such an arse when you were young ! Obviously I'm going to google a Windsor knot now. But I'm assuming it's a normal knot ? ;)

education system is great

Herer is another one I have.



From what I have found via Google, Leo Hamburger seems to have been a coindealer in the 1920s and 1930s

A medallion I bought recently has arrived today, with two pages of information ...



so not an old collector label, but the discoloured pages may have
been written some time ago.



https://en.numista.com/forum/topic80948.html#p698646
and includes more interesting stamps on the packaging. This time looks like
a set of four 'Millennium Timekeeper' 64 pence stamps, and they still have the original
borders all the way round them, so must have been a small sheet of stamps made like that.