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Miscellaneous Checks, Bedfordshire, Luton, [J.J.] Langley, brass, obv. game bird, 30mm; Essex, Colchester, The Colchester Brewing Co Ltd, copper Three-Halfpence, obv. eagle, 25mm (Adams 405); Huntingdonshire, St Neots, Paine & Son, brass One Quart, obv. barrel, 33mm; Northamptonshire, Northampton, Waukers [G.T. Hawkins], copper, by H.B. Sale, obv. hawk, 26mm (Hawkins p.445) [4]. Very fine, first and third partly discoloured, last pierced £30-40

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Tokens formed by the Late David Pottinger.

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Provenance: First bt J.G. Scott February 1996; second bt S.H. Monks March 2001; third bt L. Bennett February 1988 [probably from the hoard rescued from a fire at the brewery in 1947 and marketed by S.E. Schwer September 1984+]; fourth bt C. Brunel July 1976

J.J. Langley (†1951, aged 97), gunsmith, Bute street, fl. 1880-1919, went into partnership with Aubrey Lewis in 1919, retired 1930; Colchester Brewing Co Ltd, formed in 1887 with the merger of Norfolk & Suffolk Brewery and C. Stopes & Sons, East hill, Colchester, managing director Arthur Stopes 1890-1907; James Paine (1789-1855), a farmer, acquired Foster’s brewery, Market square, in 1831, his eldest son, William (1816-96) joined him as a partner in what was restyled James Paine & Sons in 1841 and the company expanded into milling, brewing and brickmaking, William establishing his own breakaway enterprise in 1856 and his younger brother, James Jr (1825-96) controlling James Paine & Sons, which became a limited company on his death; The Waukerz Boot Factory, 113 Overstone road, established 1885, proprietors G.T. Hawkins Ltd