Auction Catalogue

8 November 2007

Starting at 1:30 PM

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 199

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8 November 2007

Hammer Price:
£720

18th Century Tokens, Somerset, Bath, Mary Lambe & Son, Lutwyche’s Farthing, struck on a Halfpenny blank, tea-chest, rev. camel standing left, rayed sun above, edge payable at adam simpsons romney, 9.45g/3h (DH 48a, recorded from this specimen). About extremely fine and patinated, of the highest rarity, no other example believed known (£300-400)

Provenance:
S.H. Hamer Collection, Glendining Auction, 26-8 November 1930, lot 296 (part)