British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

19th Century Tokens, Frome, Willoughby & Sons, 2 Shillings, 1812, 8.20g/12h (D 70; Young 1232), Willoughby [& Sons], Mrs [Jane] Sinkins, H[enry] Ryall, W[illiam] Sparks, W[illiam] Gerard, Griffith & Gough, Shilling, 1811, 4.30g/12h (D 71; Young 1232); Taunton, Cox & Co, Penny, 20.08g/6h (W 1125; Young 1234) [3]. Last fine, others very fine and better £80-100

Provenance:W 1125 bt Seaby 1979).

D 70 only illustrated. Charles and Richard Willoughby, grocers and wine and spirit merchants, Market place; Mrs Jane Sinkins (†1864, aged 82), draper, inherited the family business from her husband John (†1811) on his death – a photograph of her taken in 1862 was published in Michael McGarvie’s Around Frome and reproduced by Mays, p.30; Henry Ryall, grocer, chandler, insurance agent and auctioneer, father of Henry Thomas Ryall (1811-67), portrait engraver to Queen Victoria; William Sparks, grocer, maltster and chandler; William Gerard, grocer and wine dealer; Griffith & Gough, linen drapers and grocers; Cox & Co, ironmongers, High street