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Posted By: Rich Jacobs

Rob: I won the 1888 Des Moines cabinet from REA, and all I can tell you is that it is even more spectacular in person than from the catalogue. The catalogue suggested that it might be unique. I emailed both Barry Sloate and Lew Lipset asking whether they had seen another. Barry responded that he had not, but Lew said he had had two very detailed Des Moines cabinets in his collection "in his prime." Rob Lifson said he believed the one I bought came from Lew's collection via George Lyons' collection (the purchase included a 1978 Trader Speaks with the cabinet on the cover, and an inside story identified as being in Lyons' collection).

It may well be that Trevor's is the other one Lew described. Has anyone seen either in any other context?