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

№ 522

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7 October 2009

Hammer Price:
£95

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co Durham, Sunderland, Ferry token, brass, 24mm (Gardiner p.48, var. 1; D & W 334/38; MG 1366); Tow Law and Bishop Auckland, [Joseph] Lingford, brass Half-Pound Tea, 23mm (Gardiner –); Northumberland, Eslington, Eslington Park Grounds, lead, also naming Watson Gardner of Gateshead and William Atkinson of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 28mm (Gardiner p.24); Newcastle-upon-Tyne, London & Newcastle Tea Co, copper Half-Pound, 1876, 17 west grainger st (Gardiner p.83); YORKSHIRE, Sheffield, Glossop Road Baths, uniface brass, stamped WR, 24mm; Royal Parisian Concert Hall, brass Threepence, 24mm; Wortley and Armley, Wortley & Armley Floral Society, copper, 22mm (D & W 199/783) [7]. About very fine and better £50-70

Second only illustrated. Joseph Lingford, an entrepreneurial Quaker, set up his baking powder business in 1861. His grandson, Herbert Lingford (1891-1950) was the famously insatiable collector of British coins who committed suicide as the business went into serious decline with the rise in popularity of self-raising flour