Mining, Warwickshire, Foleshill, Wykin Colliery, 1819, copper, by T. Halliday, date, rev. bee, waste not: want not on tablet, shop ticket below, 32mm, 12.44g/12h (D & W 297/168; Batty 2728; Davis –). Very fine and very rare £80-100

Provenance: D.C. Pottinger Collection [from S.E. Schwer Mar 1984).

Wyken Colliery, near Foleshill, Coventry, was acquired in the second decade of the 19th century by the railway promoter William James (1771-1837), from Warwick