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

№ 574

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19 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£100

Miscellaneous, Love token, a George III Penny, 1797, worn smooth and engraved (Affectionately presented to Mary Ann Groves) above two hearts and an arrow, rev. engraved (Tho’ absent may you never forget me). Very fine and of excellent work
£40-60

Accompanied by a ticket which states ‘from Jarrow’, which might infer a previous provenance to the Tyneside collector Wm. Norman