Auction Catalogue

19 March 2009

Starting at 10:30 AM

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 253

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19 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£85

Miscellaneous Checks, Gloucestershire, Berkeley, White Lion Inn, T[homas] Pick, brass Threepence, rev. lion left, countermarked r [Charles Roberts] on rev., 26mm (Greenaway 1052); Cirencester, The Swan, C. Lea, brass Twopence, swan, rev. quoit ground, 23mm (Greenaway –); The Railway Inn, brass Threepence, obv. early locomotive, 26mm (Courtney p.210; Greenaway 1088) [3]. Fine to very fine £40-50

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 R. Hayes August 1995; second R.N.P. Hawkins Collection, Glendining Auction, 16 March 1988, lot 310 (part), bt J. Whitmore November 1988; third bt S.E. Schwer June 1983).

White Lion Inn, proprietors Thomas H. Pick 1874-91, Charles Roberts 1901; Swan Inn, proprietor C. Lea 1855; Railway Inn, 10 Sheep street