Auction Catalogue

19 March 2009

Starting at 10:30 AM

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 358

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19 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£360

18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], Skidmore’s Church series, Halfpence (6), Bloomsbury, St George’s, 13.19g/11h (DH 555); Bow Lane, St Mary’s, 9.75g/12h (DH 558); Bread Street, St Mildred’s, 11.63g/12h (DH 559); Cateaton Street, St Lawrence’s, 13.15g/12h (DH 561); Clerkenwell, St James’s, mule, rev. book, 12.57g/12h (DH 567); Coleman Street, St Stephens, 12.30g/12h (DH 571) [6]. Extremely fine and better, all with considerable original colour, DH 555 from the obverse die with flaw in mid-stage and has been lacquered, but very rare £90-120

Provenance: DH 555 W. Waite Sanderson Collection, Glendining Auction, 16-17 November 1944, lot 133 (part) [bt January 1923]