Australia, Tasmania, Hobart, Lewis Abrahams, Penny, 1855 (A 1; KM. Tn7); R[euben] Henry, Penny (A 225; KM. Tn101); G. Hutton, Halfpenny (A 279; KM. Tn130); William Jarvey, Penny (A 300; KM. Tn137.3); H.J. Marsh & Brother, Penny (A 345; KM. Tn158); W.D. Wood, Penny (A 641; KM. Tn274) [6]. Fine to very fine, last better (£120-150)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Tokens formed by the Late David Pottinger.

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Provenance:
First bt January 1975
Second bt G. Johns April 2001
Third bt Format January 1991
Fourth bt J. Whitmore May 2000
Fifth bt S.E. Schwer May 1984
Sixth bt at Crewe Token Day, October 1982.

Lewis Abrahams (†1860), draper, 19 Bathurst street and later at 102 Liverpool street. William Andrew Jarvey (†1865), arrived in Tasmania in April 1844 and was appointed police constable for Hobart; he subsequently became a schoolmaster and in 1854 established a pawnbroking business in Murray street, which he sold in 1862 when it appeared to be virtually bankrupt. Later he became master of the Titania, a merchant vessel plying between Tasmania and New Zealand. His convict wife, Catherine (née Shaw) died suddenly in Septermber 1864 at the age of 40; the authorities being uncertain of her cause of death, her body was exhumed. Subsequently Jarvey was charged with poisoning her, found guilty and hanged at Dunedin gaol on 24 October 1865. Henry James Marsh (†April 1897) established his ironmongery and paint shop on the corner of Murray and William streets in 1850, initially with his brother Samuel Charles Marsh (†1854). William Dawson Wood (†March 1866, aged 45), proprietor of the Union Hotel, Campbell street, 1847-51 and the Monpellier Retreat Inn, Monpellier street, from 1855 until his death