Imitation Spade Guineas, Staffordshire, Longton, Kent’s 8000; Newcastle-under-Lyme, Dixon 7060; Penn Fields [Wolverhampton], Beckett [Benjamin Beckett], Twopence, 6590; Stafford, J. Tasker Evans 7160 [4]. 6590 about fine but extremely rare, said to be only one other known [BM], others very fine and rare £80-100

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

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Provenance: 6590 bt October 2008; 8000 bt D.G. Vorley October 1995.

Kent’s, hatters, Boardmans buildings; F. Dixon, tea dealer, Hanley and Newcastle-under-Lyme; Benjamin Beckett, beer retailer, est. 1865; J. Tasker Evans, provision merchant