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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№ 585 x

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19 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£110

Coin Weights, Scotland, Edinburgh, J[ohn] Gardner, £3 12s, brass, 28.69g/6h (W 2850a). Fine and clear, very rare £80-100

Provenance: C.K. Welch Collection, Noble Numismatics Auction 42 (Melbourne), 14-16 July 1993, lot unspecified, W.J. Noble Collection, Part III, Noble Numismatics Auction 64B (Melbourne), 11 July 2000, lot 501).

John Gardner, pewterer, West Bow, fl. 1774 (Biggs, BNJ 2004, p.116). Superior to the example illustrated by Withers