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resided in Newport, Rhode Island, and petitioners John H. and
Susan N. Allen resided in New York, New York.
Virgil M. Brand
Virgil M. Brand (Virgil Brand) was a coin collector who,
during the late 19th and early 20th century, amassed the largest
and one of the most significant private coin collections in the
United States (the coin collection). Virgil Brand died intestate
in 1926, and his brothers, Armin Brand (Armin) and Horace Brand
(Horace) succeeded to his estate. Armin and Horace each received
half of Virgil Brand's original bound coin ledgers (the coin
ledgers), which, to a large extent, recorded Virgil Brand's coin
acquisitions. Additionally, each received a reverse (white on
black) photocopy of reduced size of the coin ledgers received by
the other brother (collectively, the photocopy). Armin also
inherited certain papers relating to the Chicago Coin Co. (the
Chicago Coin Co. papers), a company that was either owned or co-
owned by Virgil Brand and that was engaged in the coin business,
and certain coin envelopes.
Jane Brand Allen
Armin died in 1946. His only child, Jane Brand Allen (Jane
Allen), inherited Armin's half of the coin ledgers and photocopy,
the Chicago Coin Co. papers, the coin envelopes, papers relating
to Virgil Brand's estate (the Virgil Brand estate papers) along
with papers relating in part to Armin's dispersal of some of the
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