British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Miscellaneous Checks, Devon, Bampton, White Horse, uniface copper, horse, 25mm (Stanton p.65, 3); Exeter, Railway Inn, Moore’s, lead Penny-Farthing, obv. locomotive, 18mm (Stanton –; Vorley/Noble –; cf. DNW 28, 571); Honiton, The Dolphin, Banfield’s, brass Fivepence, obv. dolphin, 24mm (Stanton p.81, 40, this piece); The Lamb, [Charles] Musgrove, brass, obv. lamb, countermarked white, rev. countermarked 3, 24mm (cf. Stanton p.82, 41); Lundy Island, Martin Harman, Puffin and Half-Puffin, both 1929 (S 7850-1) [6]. Fourth fine, others very fine and better, third rare £50-70

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 N.A. Clark September 1992; *second DNW Auction 28, 28 January 1997, lot 571 (part), bt M. Eden April 1997; *third R.N.P. Hawkins Collection, Glendining Auction, 16 March 1988, lot 310 (part), bt J. Whitmore November 1988; *fourth bt Format September 1992; fifth and sixth bt 1970

White Horse, Fore street; Railway Inn, Crediton road; The Dolphin, High street, proprietor Wm Henry Banfield 1862-83+, succeeded by Harry Banfield 1889-1902; The Lamb, High street, proprietor Chas. B. Musgrove 1862, no-one by the name of White has been traced there but Yolanda Courtney (pers. comm. Dec 1992) suggested to the late Barry Greenaway that Musgrove later as proprietor of the White Hart, altered his checks to give the impression that they were pieces redeemable at the White Hart; Martin Coles Harman (1884-1954), from Caterham, Surrey, acquired Lundy, the birdwatcher’s paradise located in the Bristol Channel, from Augustus Christie in 1925. A 'character' who firmly believed that Lundy was 'a self-governing dominion of the British Empire recognising King George as its head', Harman printed Lundy stamps and had the Birmingham mint strike Lundy coins with his own head on them. It is said that the idea of the coins was a direct result of Harman listening to Col Morrieson’s paper on what was then believed to be the Civil War coinage of Lundy, 1645-7, read to the British Numismatic Society on 27 Feb 1929. The coins led to a court case in January 1931 which Harman lost and was subsequently fined £5 and 15 guineas costs