British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

18th Century Tokens, Bath, Glover, Halfpenny, 9.52g/6h (DH 28, small flan); William Gye, Halfpence, 1794 (2), 10.03g/6h (DH 33), 10.00g/6h (DH 34), mule Halfpence by Lutwyche (5), 9.39g/6h (DH 36a), 9.38g/6h (DH 36c), 9.05g/6h (DH 36d), 9.20g/6h (DH 36f), 10.85g/6h (DH 37); Francis Heath, Halfpence (4), 1794, 9.87g/6h (DH 39), 1795, 9.97g/6h (DH 40, small flan), 1796 (2), 9.42g/6h (DH 41), 10.18g/6h (DH 45), Farthings (2), 1794, 4.58g/6h (DH 115), 1795, 4.46g/6h (DH 116), mule Halfpenny by Lutwyche, 11.62g/6h (DH 42) [15]. DH 39 and 40 extremely fine with almost full original colour, DH 45 about fine, others very fine and better, DH 36a and 36c with original colour £120-150

DH 40 only illustrated. It is uncertain from the legend on the token whether the Glover hardware business based at 39 Milsom street reflects a connection between the issuer and the Bath & Somersetshire Bank, the known proprietors of which were Horlock, Mortimer & Co (later Horlock Anderson & Co), or whether, as seems more likely, that the bank had ceased trading sometime in the mid-1790s and Glover took the property over. Ironically, 39 Milsom street is now occupied by a branch of the National Westminster Bank. William Gye (1750-1802), bookseller, printer and stationer, 4 Westgate buildings and later at 13 Market place, agent to the debtors at Ilchester gaol; after his death from an apoplectic fit his widow Mary, née Batchelor, and a son, Henry, carried on the business (Longman, pp.58-9). Francis Heath, ironmonger, brazier and cutler, 15 Bath street, and from 1799 at 2 Bath street; he was declared bankrupt at the end of 1800 and his stock auctioned in Bath in January 1801, but by 1805 he was back in business at 15 Stall street (Griffin, SCMB, 1958, pp.107-8, and Pottinger, Coin News, July 2005, p.44). The Walcot Turnpike is discussed by Brooke (CTCJ Winter 2001, pp.30-1)