British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Miscellaneous Checks, Warwickshire, Brailes, J[ohn] Gillett, copper, rev. chaff engine, 27mm (Davis 947; Noble II, 1183); Warwick, Blackhorse Inn, E. Davies, brass Threepence by S. Hiron, obv. horse left, 26mm; Brown Bear, T[heophilus] Cooke, brass Threepence, obv. bear, 27mm; Warwick Coffee Tavern Co Ltd, cupro-nickel Penny [by Heaton], obv. bear and ragged staff, 25mm (Courtney p.153) [4]. First two good very fine, third in excavated state, last about very fine but with date 1939 finely scratched on reverse, all rare £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 J. Whitmore November 1981; *second bt B. Dewhirst June 1976; third bt A. Judd March 1999; fourth bt Format March 1999).

John Gillett, inventor and manufacturer of agricultural chaff engines, exhibitor at the 1851 Great Exhibition; Blackhorse Inn, Saltisford, proprietor E. Davies 1851-64; Brown Bear, Market place, proprietor Theophilus Cooke 1864-74; Warwick Coffee Tavern, Old square, est. 1880, ordered their tokens from Heatons in 1881