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Lot

№ 672

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£30

Imitation Spade Guineas, Devon, Plymouth, Elon Abdon Luke 7120. Very fine £15-25

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Advertising Checks from the David Magnay Collection.

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Elon Abdon Luke, hatter and clothier, 16 Union street, with branches in Hoxton and Ivybridge, fl. 1870s-1880s. ‘The shops seemed to cater mainly for mature ladies and the French inscription Le Bon Marche was probably for the benefit of travellers from Cherbourg’ (Magnay)