Chapter XIII

My Principal Furnishers--Influence of Early Training on My
Taste--Rejection of Inferior Examples an Invaluable
Safeguard--I outgrow My First Instructors--Necessity for
Emancipation from a Single Source of Supply--Mr Schulman of
Amersfoort--His Influential Share in Amplifying My
Numismatic Stores--My Visit to Him--The Rare _Daalder_ of
Louis Napoleon, King of Holland--My Adventures at Utrecht
and Brussels--Flattering Confidence--In the Open Market--
Schulman's Catalogues--MM. Rollin & Feuardent--Their
English Representative--Courtesy and Kindness to the
Writer--Occasional Purchases--The Late Mr Montagu--
Discussion about an Athenian Gold _Stater_--An Atmospheric
Experiment--My Manifold Obligations to Mr Whelan--Mr
Cockburn of Richmond allows Me to select from His English
Collection--I forestall Mr Montagu--Messrs Spink & Son--
Their Prominent Rank and Cordial Espousal of My Interests
and Wants--Development of My Cabinet under Their Auspices--
My Agreeable Relations with Them--Their Business-like
Policy, Liberality and Independence--The Prince of Naples--
We give and take a Little--The Monthly _Numismatic
Circular_--The Clerical Client, 257

CHAPTER XIV

The Coin Sales--My Stealthy Accumulations from Some of
Them--Comparative Advantages of Large and Small Sales--The
Disappointment over One at Genoa--The Boyne Sale--Its
Meagre Proportion of Fine Pieces--My Comfort, and what came
to Me--Narrow Escape of the Collection from Sacrifice to a
Foreign Combination--Trade Sales Abroad--A New Departure--
Considerations on Poorly-Preserved Coins--I resign Them to
the Learned--I have to Classify by Countries and Their
Divisions--My Personal Appurtenances--Suggestions which may
be Useful to Others--The Great Bactrian Discovery--Extent
of Representative Collections of Ancient Money--Antony and
Cleopatra--Adherence to My own Fixed and Deliberate Plan--
The Argument to be used by Any One following in My
Footsteps--Advice of an Old Collector to a New One, 284