19th Century Tokens, Bristol, Samuel Guppy, Pennies, 1811 (2), 17.58g/12h (W 505), 19.56g/12h (W 506), Halfpenny, 1812, 9.60g/12h (W 513); Patent Sheathing Nail Manufactory [Samuel Guppy], Pennies, 1811 (5), 18.84g/12h (W 460), 17.49g/12h (W 463), 20.30g/12h (W 463b), 17.00g/12h (W 464), 19.03g/12h (W 493), Halfpence, 1811 (5), 9.15g/12h (W 471), 9.38g/12h (W 471a), 9.63g/12h (W 472), 9.12g/12h (W 474), 8.34g/12h (W 484), Farthing, 1811, 3.81g/12h (W 490) [14]. W 464 fine, W 472 good fine, others all very fine but W 471a lacquered, some rare £90-120

Provenance: W 460, 464, 471a, *493 and 513 bt R. Sharman 1988).

Samuel Guppy (1755-1830), inventor and West Indies merchant, proprietor of the Patent Pure Copper Sheathing Nail Manufactory, 34 Queen square and Grove avenue, Bristol, and 22 Dowgate hill, London, fl. 1799-1820, †Chard 20 May 1830. His wife, Sarah Maria, née Beach (1770-1852) managed the Dowgate hill end of the business and lived next to the Brunels in Cheyne walk, Chelsea; their second son, Thomas Guppy (1797-1882) was Isambard K. Brunel’s partner in establishing the Great Western Railway Co and the Great Western Steamship Co