British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Miscellaneous Checks, Oxfordshire, Benson, Crown Hotel, E[dward] Glanville, brass Twopence, 35mm (Pottinger, TCSB 8, pp.377-8, this piece; Gunstone p.27); Oxford, Morrell’s, uniface zinc 1 Pint, 30mm (Pottinger, TCSB 8, pp.380-1) [2]. Fine, flan of first slightly bent, both rare £25-35

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 M. Eden February 1992; second bt S.H. Monks January 2005).

Crown Hotel, proprietor Edward Glanville 1861-9, Glanville (aged 28 in 1861) also a builder and carriage-maker, in which pursuits he continued after ceasing to be landlord at the Crown; Morrell’s Brewery, St Thomas’s street, proprietor James Morrell Jr