British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Miscellaneous Checks, Cornwall, Luxulyan, John Trevail, 1902, copper, oxen pulling plough, rev. worker holding scythe, no labour no bread, 26mm (Mayne/Williams 4); St Issey, S[amuel] Tregaskis, brass One Sack, 1873, rev. ship at mill staith, 27mm (Mayne/Williams 7; cf. DNW 60, 1286); Truro, Paid check, 1830, 18mm (cf. DNW 60, 1287) [3]. Second with usual piercing, about very fine, rare, others good very fine £70-100

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 Token Congress, Huddersfield, October 2004; *second bt L. Bennett August 1987; second bt J. Whitmore Jan 1975).

John Trevail (1820-1902), father of the Cornish architect and entrepreneur Silvanus Travail (1851-1906) led the annual 2-day Whitsun beating of the parish boundary of Luxulyan; Samuel Tregaskis, miller and boat-owner, fl. 1873-89