Miscellaneous Checks, Co Antrim, Belfast, The N[orthern] P[ublishing] O[ffice], brass [by A. Fenwick], swallow, rev. clasped hands, 22mm (Hawkins pp.228-9; Dublinia 366); Co Dublin, Dublin, India & China Plantation Tea Co, zinc One Pound and copper One Quarter Pound, both by Ardill, revs. elephant and castle, 29 and 22mm (Noble II, 610), W[illia]m Whitestone, brass, rev. building, 32mm (Macalister 970; Dublinia 390; Noble II, 607); Temperance Halfpenny, 1840, copper, arms, rev. children trained in the habits…will never become drunkards, etc, 28mm [5]. Mostly about very fine, first better £30-40

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 J. Whitmore November 1983; second bt R. Hayes September 1996; third bt J. Whitmore October 1975; fourth bt J. Whitmore November 1991; fifth bt Format September 1991).

The Northern Publishing Office, religious and evangelical publishers, 42-4 Ann street; William Whitestone, ironmongers, 24 North Earl street