Robert Love and his Bakery

Very interesting read (Love’s: A Century of One Family’s Enterprise). After reading this booklet (and a little more research), I have a rough idea of the time period of use for each of the  M&R “2TB-XX”tokens.

As an example, Silva’s Bakery (2TB-20) is identified in this 1910 newspaper (and they got a bad review).

Love’s Bakery was the 5th bakery in Hawaii.

The first commercial bakery in the islands was operated by Ah Mow (Chinese baker).

LOVES

2MS-20 Uniface Hawaii Statehood Medal (aka HK-537)

When I saw the HK-537 for sale, I made an immediate request to hold it for me with a cashiers check on its way.

In the return email communication, I was offered the HK-536 as an add on-sale in order to keep the Hawaii and Alaska Uniface medals as a matched pair.

I’m glad that I made the additional purchase. There were only 11 pairs of Alaska-Hawaii Uniface medals that Clifford Mishler struck. Mr. Mishler is the current American Numismatic Association (ANA) President.

This is the only known matched pair (obverse and reverse) that has been graded/encapsulated by the  Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC).

This matched pair was once part of the Ostheimer Collection of So Called Dollars which was sold and dispersed in 2011. http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v13n51a17.html

I recently received my Hibler-Kappen So Called Dollar 2nd Edition book.

The Alaska HK-536 is the plate coin (plate coins are superb examples of the type) and attributed with an Ostheimer Collection and Hibler pedigree.

The Hawaii HK-537 is attributed with an Ostheimer Collection and Hibler pedigree. The Hibler-Kappen 2nd Edition book did not have a HK-537 plate coin (no image in the book).

This is the only known image of the NGC encapsulated HK-536 with its original plate coin image from the  Hibler-Kappen So Called Dollar 2nd Edition book.

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My Book Purchases

Within the past week I purchased 4 books relating to Hawaiiana numismatics:

  1. Hawaiian Money 2nd Edition by Medcalf & Russell (This is a replacement book after gifting my copy to my godfather).
  2. So-Called Dollars, 2nd Edition by Hibler & Kapen (Tired of the on-line google book version with pages blocked).
  3. Paper Money of the Kingdom and the Republic of Hawaii by Medcalf & Fong (Reference copy for my library)
  4. Love’s, A Century of One Family’s Enterprise by  Meiric Dutton (Reference copy for my library).

I stumbled onto the Love’s booklet and purchased it. This booklet was published by Love’s Biscuit & Bread Co., Ltd., Honolulu, 1952. This should provide good reference material if I ever wanted to have an exhibit on the Love’s Bakery tokens.

Love’s, A Century of One Family’s Enterprise : This is the story of Love’s Bakery located in Hawaii.  Started in 1851 in the back and beyond called Honolulu Love started in a year of drought and depression, supplies almost impossible to get and yet he forged a business that survived.  In this booklet is the history of the family and bakery along with history of Hawaii under kings, provisional governments, republics, territorial status and statehood.

 

More historical information from the company’s website: http://www.lovesbakeryhawaii.com/about.html

Hawaiian Gold

I was watching a 1997 Princess Kaiulani 1/20 Proof gold on Ebay for a week (sold last night for $145.36). http://www.ebay.com/itm/Royal-Hawaiian-Gold-Princess-kaiulani-1-20-9999-Box-and-COA-included-/262032116634?hash=item3d0254cb9a

What made this coin interesting was its original box and certificate.

Normally, sellers break-up completed sets in hope of obtaining maximum profit.

This princess is undocumented in WIGB. My previous blog https://thehawaiiananumismatist.com/2013/12/15/1997-kaiulani-hapaiwakalua/ . Great item for the Hawaiiana gold collector.

Here are additional gold that one can buy directly from Royal Hawaiian Mint.

I suspect that the above 1997 Kaiulani shares the reverse of this coin. Unlisted in WIGB.

http://www.royalhawaiianmint.com/1996-kamehameha-gold-hapaiwakalua-crown.html

WIGB and M&R indicates mintage of 100. RHM website indicates 65.

http://www.royalhawaiianmint.com/1989-king-kalakaua-gold-hsna-medal.html

 

 

PCGS Incorrect Identification

I saw this incorrect PCGS identification and just had to bid on it.

Not a bad auction win for me.

For the budding so called dollar specialist and Hawaiiana Statehood medal specialist, this is a sterling silver medal that should have been correctly slabbed as 2M-18 or HK-529.

Mintage is a mere 100 specimens.

I not sure how PCGS, the owner, and other 61 auction viewers  missed this one.

For the astute collector: Buy the coin/medal …not the slab….

 

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Below is a comparison specimen.

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Results of My Aggressive Bidding for an Intact 2M-390

I won !

Why the aggressive bidding?

2M-390 (Hawaii Collector Identifier) is actually HK-722A (So Called Dollar Collector Identifier).

The NGC population reports a  graded population of 3. Population of 3!  See NGC Population Report snippet below. 

It is assumed that NGC will not add holed specimens to its NGC population, as any holed specimens automatically will be assigned a DETAILS grade.

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This is the specimen I aggressively bid on. It’s a MS 65!

(The medal is actually slabbed by a mid-tier third-party grading service). Hopefully, a NGC submittal with keep it at least above the MS-63 level. And if it does, its a top pop!

The medal was part of the Presidential Coin and Antiques Company, Inc. Auction 85. (note the Hawaii name typos in the listing)

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Selected! Money Talk: American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money in Chicago

Received a conformation email that my topic “The Diversity of Hawaiian Numismatics” was selected for presentation at the upcoming ANA show.

I now need to finalize my presentation.

If you have any items of interest or examples  for me  to present relating to Hawaii, let me know. You will be given credit in using your material.

My main intent of this presentation is to show how Hawaiian numismatics are part of some of the mainstream categories: So-called dollars, So-called half-dollars, tokens, medals, bullion, etc…

It is also to show that Hawaiian numismatics is basically the study and/or collecting of coins, tokens, medals, paper money, scrip, and objects that have a relationship with Hawaii. Most items that are collected have a design or text related to Hawaii. The Hawaiian relationship may be in a form of its landscape; its cultures, its people, its industry, its events, its language, its customs, its celebrities, etc…

My presentation topic is to generate interest to OTHER THAN  Kingdom of Hawaii coins, tokens, or medals listed in the “red book”.

I will have to locate my original submittal and post it here (my laptop suffered from the black screen of death and I successful in extracting majority of my files…a very slow process since my adhoc filing system was not the best).