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

№ 458

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19 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£340

18th Century Tokens, Angus, Dundee, William Croom, Boulton’s Halfpence (2), 10.19g/6h, 9.89g/6h (both DH 13), Wright’s ‘Infirmary’ Halfpence, 1796 (2), 11.29g/6h, 11.14g/6h (both DH 16), J.M. & Co, Farthing, 3.16g/12h (DH 39), Alexander Molison, Wright’s Halfpence, 1795 (2), 11.16g/6h, 11.10g/6h (both DH 10), John Pilmer, Wright’s Halfpenny, 1797, 11.90g/6h (DH 17), Alexander Swap & Co, Wright’s Halfpenny, 1797, 11.15g/6h (DH 21), Thomas Webster Jr, Wright’s Penny, 1797, 19.55g/6h (DH 5); Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Ralph Erskine & Co, Farthing, 1781, 5.33g/12h (DH 25), Retailers’ token, 2.60g/6h (DH 48); Lothian (Midlothian), Edinburgh, Anderson, Leslie & Co, Wright’s Halfpenny, 1797, 10.79g/6h (DH 7), E. Campbell, Halfpence (2), 1795, 11.44g/6h (DH 13), 9.93g/8h (DH 15), Henry Harrison, Halfpenny, 1796, 9.18g/12h (DH 20), Thomas and Alexander Hutchinson, Halfpenny, 1792, 12.45g/6h (DH 44); Leith, issuer uncertain, Halfpenny, 1797, 8.78g/6h (DH 61); Perthshire, Perth, Patrick Maxwell, Halfpenny, 1797, 9.10g/6h (DH 9) [19]. Mostly very fine, some better, but one Croom Halfpenny scratched £150-200

Provenance: D.E. Litrenta Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 69A, 16 March 2006, lot 133 (part), additionally: *DH 25 N.G. Brodie Collection, DNW Auction 55, 8 October 2002, lot 178 (part) [from W. Allen May 1964], DH 39 W.J. Fleming Collection, W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 62 (Sydney), 17-18 November 1999, lot 309 (part)