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

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Lot

№ 408

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19 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£230

18th Century Tokens, Suffolk, Beccles, issuer uncertain, Halfpenny, 1795, 10.88g/6h (DH 16); Blything, Sir John Rous, Halfpenny, 1794, 11.24g/12h (DH 19); Bungay, Samuel Prentice, Halfpence, 1794 (2), 10.50g/6h (DH 22), 9.39g/6h (DH 22d), Samuel Prentice, Samuel Delf and Mathias Abel Sr, Halfpenny, 1795, 9.58g/6h (DH 21); Bury St Edmunds, Michael Apsey, Halfpence (2), 10.60g/6h (DH 28), 9.18g/6h (DH 28a), Philip Deck, Halfpenny, 10.52g/11h (DH 26), James Goer, Halfpenny, 9.40g/12h (DH 27), Charles Guest, Halfpenny, 1795, 8.41g/6h (DH 30), John Rackham and Richard Leatherdale, Halfpenny, 10.37g/6h (DH 29); Haverhill, John Fincham, Halfpenny, 1794, 9.78g/6h, mule Halfpenny, rev. plough and shuttle, 10.79g/12h (DH 32); Ipswich, Robert Manning, Halfpenny, 9.92g/6h (DH 34); Lowestoft, Robert Peach, Halfpenny, 1795, 9.82g/6h (DH 37) [15]. DH 22, 26, 27, 29 and 32 very fine, others generally about extremely fine and better, several with original colour or attractive patination £120-150

Provenance: DH 27 bt Stanley Gibbons July 1980; DH 28 and 31 Spink Auction 28, 28 April 1983, lot 345 (part); DH 30 A Good Collection of 18th Century Tokens, DNW Auction 29, 9 April 1997, lot 460 (part); DH 32 and 37 A Collection of 18th Century Trade Tokens, Glendining Auction, 28 June 1989, lot 502 (part); others A.W. Jan Collection, Glendining Auction, 19 July 1965, lot 395 (part).

DH 19 only illustrated