British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Miscellaneous Checks, Staffordshire, Blythbridge, The Cock, brass Twopence, obv. cock, three punch-marks, 26mm (Whitmore 5237); The Swan, brass Twopence, obv. swan, 26mm (W 6052); Burslem, Swan Inn, J[oseph] Hodson, octagonal brass Twopence, obv. swan, 29mm (W 6055); Hanley, Lamb Inn, J[ohn] Meigh, brass Twopence by H. Smith, obv. lamb, 32mm (W 5570); Smethwick, American Bowling Saloon, Geo[rge] Lea, copper Twopences (2), obvs. soldiers, cannon and cannonballs, second with radiate star countermark on obv. and eg, both 22mm (W 6264; cf. UFS 4630); Uttoxeter, The Cock, George Pegg, brass Threepence by S. Beddows, cock, rev. billiard table, 26mm (W 5238) [7]. Last fair and pierced, others fine to very fine £60-80

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 and *third bt A. Judd September 1994; *fourth bt J. Whitmore June 1988; fifth bt B. Hennem October 2000; sixth bt Format October 1990; seventh bt M. Eden September 1995).

The Cock, Longton road; The Swan, Blythsmarsh; Swan Inn, Swan square, proprietor Joseph Awty Hodson, 1860-6, Awty also an auctioneer, appraiser and earthenware commission agent; Lamb Inn, 6-7 Lamb street, proprietor John Aynsley Meigh 1856-66; The Cock, proprietor George Pegg 1854