British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

18th Century Tokens, Bath, John Jelly, Lutwyche’s Penny, 1794, 19.54g/6h (DH 5, large flan), Halfpenny, 1794, 9.09g/6h (DH 26); Mary Lambe & Son, Lutwyche’s Penny, 1794, 20.40g/6h (DH 8), Halfpence, 1794 (4), 10.52g/6h (DH 50), 12.15g/6h (DH 50c), 11.10g/6h (DH 50e), 10.39g/6h (DH 50k), Farthings (2), 1794, 4.59g/6h (DH 111), 1795, 4.51g/6h (DH 112a); Kempson’s mule Halfpenny, 9.62g/6h (DH 54) [10]. DH 54 good fine and very rare, others about extremely fine and better, DH 111 and 112a with virtually full original colour, DH 5 with attractive old patina £140-180

DH 111 only illustrated. John Jelly (†1813), lawyer, Gay’s place, proprietor of the Walcot Botanic Garden, opened in June 1793 with the help of the apothecary and botanist William Sole (1741-1802); Jelly was declared bankrupt in April 1795 and his property, including the garden, sold by auction (Brooke, CTCJ December 1999, pp.33-5). Mary Lambe & Son, grocers and tea dealers, 36 Stall street (later merged with 1 Bath street in 1799); Mary was the widow of Lacon Lambe (†1775) and her youngest son, Markes Lambe, who was a numismatist and a presumed customer of Lutwyche, auctioned his collection of tokens and medals with the London house of Thomas King Jr on 27 December 1800 (Griffin, SCMB 1959, pp.214-15)