Auction Catalogue

7 October 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 227 x

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7 October 2009

Hammer Price:
£280

Lancashire, Lancaster, Thomas Worswick & Sons, imitation Halfpence, 1792 (16), mullet below bust (8), LONDON edges (2), 10.61g/6h (DH 29), 10.79g/6h (DH 29a), cambridge edge, 10.06g/6h (DH 29b), CLOUGHER edge, 10.06g/1h (DH 29c), HULL edge, 9.65g/6h (DH 29d), EVERY WHERE edge, 10.22g/6h (DH 29e), grained edge, 8.81g/6h (DH 29f), PAYABLE AT SOUTH SHIELDS AND LONDON ·XX· edge, 10.14g/6h (DH 29, edge unlisted); hexagonal star below bust, 11.11g/12h (DH 30); nothing below bust, edge plain, 9.65g/6h (DH 31a); lightweight issue with wavy star below bust, 5.81g/6h (DH 33); flower below bust (5), CLOUGHER edge, 9.33g/6h (DH 34), DUBLIn edge, 8.69g/8h (DH 35), CLOUGHER edge, 8.81g/7h (DH 37), CLOUGHER edge, 9.33g/6h (DH 38), BALLYMURTAGH edge, 5.48g/6h (DH 38 bis) [16]. DH 29a practically as struck with virtually full original colour, DH 29d, e and f good very fine, DH 29 with unlisted edge good fine and very rare, others in varied state, DH 38 bis superior to the DH plate coin £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection.

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Provenance: *DH 29a bt W. Anderson January 1996; DH 29b bt P. Flanagan April 1980; DH 29c bt M.Z. Gerson July 1979; DH 29d, 35 and 38 bt R. Gladdle April 1988; DH 29e J.A. Bobbe Collection [from J.D. King January 1981], bt J.A.B. January 1984; DH 29f and 30 bt P. Flanagan March 1981; DH 29 edge unlisted bt W. McKivor April 2002; DH 31a and 34 bt A. Davisson July 1996; DH 33 bt R. Burress April 1998; DH 37 bt S. Cordova July 1989; DH 38 bis bt S. Cordova October 1989