British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Miscellaneous Checks, Sussex, Chichester, Jarman & Co, 1851, brass, cathedral, rev. purchasers…will be entitled to one of these cathedral medals, etc, 32mm; E. Parker, 1831 (2), both copper [by W.J. Taylor], revs. crypt and spire of the Cathedral, both 28mm (Hawkins p.753 and pl.27, 1; Noble II, 1173); Fletching, W[illiam] Diplock, brass, griffin, rev. 12 in wreath, 28mm (Henderson 170); Hurst Green, [Sir] S[otherton] Micklethwaite, brass Shilling and brass Penny, both revs. griffin, 24 and 17mm (Henderson 354; Noble II, 498-9); Lindfield, Red Lion, Charles Mills, 1855, brass, lion, rev. clasped hands, for auld lang syne, 30mm (Noble II, 1011) [7]. First two very fine, others fine and better, third, fourth and sixth rare £70-100

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 Reading Coin Fair November 1974; second bt R. Gladdle August 1990; third bt A. Judd September 1997; fourth bt Format September 1992; *fifth bt Format September 1992; sixth bt S.E. Schwer October 1987; *seventh bt M. Dickinson Sept 1991).

Jarman & Co, grocers and tea dealers, West street, founded by Henry Jarman in June 1851, fl. until the late 1920s; E. Parker, wine and spirit merchant, North street; Griffin Hotel, proprietor William Diplock; Sir Sotherton Branthwayte Micklethwait, Bt (1788-1853), Tridge place, Hurst Green, knighted by Queen Victoria in July 1838 for seizing the reins of horses that had bolted while drawing the carriage carrying her and her mother the previous year; Red Lion, High street, proprietor Charles Mills, in Kelly’s PO directory 1867