British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Miscellaneous Checks, Lancashire, Preston, [John] Johnson, brass, rev. railway locomotive, stamped 40, 29mm; John Thornley, brass 1850, rev. teapot, 32mm (Pottinger, TCSB 8, 5, pp.186-9 and type 1, this piece; Noble II, 1194); Rochdale, Fox Inn, G[eorge] Miles, brass Twopence, obv. fox, 28mm; Edmund Leach & Sons, copper, rev. Crystal Palace, 26mm (Allen 270); Newbold Friendly Society, copper, by Ardill, no. 3186, rev. fox, 27mm; Walkden, Walkden Provident Industrial CSL, bronze, by Ardill, obv. swan, 24mm (Rains 20) [6]. Fourth slightly bent but good fine and very rare, superior to the illustration in Allen, others generally very fine £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 and *second bt R. Hayes August 1996; *third bt Format March 1992; fourth bt B. Hennem June 2002; fifth bt J. Whitmore April 1980; sixth bt J. Whitmore November 1988).

John Johnson, clock and watch manufacturer, engraver, jeweller and optician, 11 Orchard street 1865-83; John Thornley, tea merchant at the Golden Tea Pot, Market place, est. 1839; Fox Inn, Hyde park, Milnrow road, proprietor George Miles 1877; Edmund Leach & Sons, retail brewers, 58 Whitworth road; Newbold Friendly Society, formed November 1841, met at the house of James Kershaw, Hyde Park terrace, Milnrow road, but by 1877 they were meeting at the Fox Inn, hence the fox on the reverse; Walkden Provident Industrial CSL, est. 1871