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

№ 266

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8 November 2007

Hammer Price:
£35

Burn, J.H., A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century, 2nd edn, London, 1855, xcv + 287pp, original black morocco; Hawkins, E., and others, Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II, 2 vols [1885], London, 1978, xxxii + 724, 866pp; Jewitt, L., English Coins and Tokens, London, 1886, 128pp, engraved illustrations in text; Waters, A.W., Notes on The Silver Tokens of the Nineteenth Century, London, 1957, x + 21pp; Wetton, J.L., The Hampshire Seventeenth Century Traders’ Tokens, Lymington, 1964, 37pp rectos, 22 plates; Berry, G., Discovering Trade Tokens, Tring, 1969, 56pp including plates; Purvey, P.F., Coins and Tokens of Scotland, 1st edn, London, 1972, 160pp, illustrations in text; Cox, B.G., The Seventeenth Century Token Coinage of Blandford Forum, Dorset, Blandford, 1983, 9pp rectos, illustrations; Schwer, S.E., Schwer Price Guide to 18th Century Tokens, Ipswich, nd [1984], v + 170pp, illustrations in text; Spink Coin Auctions [London], Nos. 26, 35, 43 (3) [15]. Publishers’ bindings; Jewitt with newspaper cutting relating to the new 1927 British coinage pasted-in and back cover of Waters torn (£40-60)

Provenance:
Burn ex libris George Hickson Fagan, Paignton (with his bookplate), Andrew Oliver and Albert Edward Barnes
Jewitt ex libris Alice Edleston, Gainford, May 1886