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

№ 400

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7 October 2009

Hammer Price:
£410

18th Century Tokens, Middlesex [incorporating London], Skidmore’s Church series, Halfpence (10), Abchurch Lane, St Mary’s, edge partly grained, 9.67g/12h (DH 538a); Aldermanbury, St Mary’s (2), skidmore edge, 12.70g/12h (DH 539), edge finely grained, 9.20g/11h (DH 539b); Aldersgate, St Ann’s, 14.30g/10h (DH 540); St Botolph’s, edge plain, 11.52g/11h (DH 541); Basinghall Street, St Michael’s, coventry edge, 13.13g/12h (DH 545); Bishopsgate, St Botolph’s (2), undated, edge plain, 12.74g/12h (DH 549a), 1797, 13.91g/12h (DH 550); St Ethelburge’s, 8.60g/6h (DH 551); Great St Helen’s, 9.65g/12h (DH 552) [10]. Extremely fine and better, DH 538a, 539, 539b and 541 patinated, others with varying amounts of original colour, last two very rare £180-220

Provenance: DH 539, 539b, 545 and 550 S.H. Hamer Collection, Glendining Auction, 26-8 November 1930, lot 198 (part), W. Waite-Sanderson Collection, Glendining Auction, 16-17 November 1944, lot 133 (part); DH 541 W. Waite-Sanderson Collection, Glendining Auction, 16-17 November 1944, lot 133 (part); *DH 551 W.J. Davis Collection, Sotheby Auction, 11-15 March 1901, lot 181 (part), F.S. Cokayne Collection; DH 552 F.S. Cokayne Collection [from J.H. Daniels July 1897]