British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Miscellaneous Checks, Berkshire, Abingdon, Nag’s Head Inn, R[obert] Cornish, brass Twopence by S.A. Daniell, 26mm (Pottinger, TCSB 8, p.375, this piece; Courtney p.196; Greenaway 1033); Maidenhead, Clivedon Coffee House (2), brass Penny, 24mm, cupro-nickel Threepence by W. Ludgate, 25mm (Pottinger, TCSB 8, pp.252-3, these pieces); Newbury, Newbury Coffee House Co Ltd, brass Twopence, 24mm (Pottinger, TCSB 8, pp.253-4, this piece); Reading, Chesterton & Son, brass, 21mm (Pottinger, TCSB 8, p.330, this piece); a George III Penny, 1797, obv. countermarked horniman reading (Scott –, but cf. Scott, TCSB 4, no.5); Katesgrove Iron Works, uniface copper, breakfast, countermarked 66 and crossed through, 31mm; Robert Tompkins, hexagonal brass, 27mm (Pottinger, TCSB 8, p.332, this piece); Wantage, Wantage Coffee House Co Ltd, brass Penny, 25mm (Pottinger, TCSB 8, pp.255-6, this piece) [9]. First extremely fine, seventh fine, others generally very fine, a good county group £100-150

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 D.C. Pennock April 2006; second bt B. Hennem February 2002; *third bt H. Simmons October 2005; fourth bt D.C. Pennock February 2005; fifth bt J. Whitmore May 1998; *sixth bt A. Judd January 2001; seventh bt A. Judd January 2000; eighth bt M. Gouby January 2001; *ninth bt B. Hennem Nov 2003).

Nag’s Head Inn, proprietor Robert Cornish 1882-92, previously at the Roebuck Inn, aged 29 in 1881; The Cliveden Maidenhead Coffee Palace Co Ltd, Queen street, fl. 1887-99, managing director James Daniel Morling Pearce (†1898, aged 79), borough magistrate and town benefactor, five times mayor between 1856 and 1890; Newbury Public Coffee House Co Ltd, fl. 1883-1907, managing director Joseph Elliot 1887-99; Chesterton & Son, clothiers, 21 King street, proprietor Joseph Chesterton (aged 56 in 1881), fl. 1863-87; Robert Horniman, lithographic printer and stationer, 66 Broad street, publisher of the first Reading directory in 1826; Katesgrove Iron Works, Katesgrove lane, developed from the foundry established by two brothers, Thomas and Joseph Perry, early in the 19th century, employed 400 workers by the time it became the Reading Iron Works Ltd in 1864 but closed in 1887; Robert Tompkins (1833-97), proprietor of the Tompkins Royal Horse and Carriage Repository, auctioneers and estate agents, 25 Friar street, fl. 1856-91 [-1911], lived at Westlands, Tilehurst road and was a Conservative town councillor 1872-8; Wantage Coffee House Co Ltd, Market place, est. 1880, manageress Mrs Sarah Betteridge (in 1891 widow, aged 60)