Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 3500
New York Thistle Curling Association (NY), $25 shs, 1890, #36-42 and #51, wonderful engraving of a curling stone, black and green, uncanceled, VF+. The Thistle Club had been the first American curling organization, formed in Detroit in 1840; revived in 1885, it no doubt inspired the New York club represented here. A rare sporting stock! [8]
Sold for
$525