High Holborn, John Skidmore, Halfpence, 1795 (2), edge grained, 10.58g/6h (DH 480), edge plain, 10.09g/6h (DH 480a); Farthing, 1795, edge grained, 3.89g/12h (DH 1074); Peter Skidmore, Farthing, rev. man hanging from gallows, edge grained, 3.72g/12h (DH 1075) [4]. First about extremely fine, second very fine and very rare, others extremely fine, third with minor flan crack, last with some original colour and very rare (£100-150)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of 18th Century Tokens formed by Dr David L Spence.

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Provenance:
Fawcett/Litman Collection, additionally:
DH 480 F.W. Lincoln Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 February 1936, lot 254 (part) [from Verity].
DH 1074 and *1075 W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lot 211 (part) [both from Spink January 1907].

John Skidmore, furnisher and stove-grate manufacturer, 123 High Holborn and 15 Coppice row, Clerkenwell; his business styled Skidmore & Son from 1797, a front for the token manufacturing business run by his son Peter, who issued vast numbers of specious and other tokens for the then collectors’ market from Coppice row and who, in the eyes of a contemporary, was ‘one of the most reprehensible dealers’ (Thompson, BNJ 1969, p.154, quoting Charles Sheplard)