British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, LONDON, Billingsgate, Leleu & Co, brass Sixpence, 27mm; Bloomsbury, The Swan, Vardy, brass Twopence-Halfpenny by T. Pope, 27mm; Bromley-by-Bow, Rose & Crown, J. Chase, copper Penny by W.J. Taylor, 28mm; Clerkenwell, Horse & Groom, W. Cheshire, brass Twopence-Halfpenny by T. Pope, 23mm; Farringdon, Market, G.V. Barling, oval copper Shilling, 42 x 29mm; High Holborn, Sparrow’s, brass, 26mm; Holborn, L. & A. Pyke, brass, 24mm; Islington, Highbury Barn, Sixpences (2), brass, 28mm (D & W 75/213; MG 795), lead, 26mm (D & W 75/214; MG 792; TCC p.320); Leadenhall Street, F. Toole & Co (3), all brass, 25mm; Marylebone, Smith & Co, brass, 24mm; Oxford Street, Parkins & Gotto, brass, 27mm, W. Salt, brass, 26mm; Regent Street, Ivor’s Brasserie, hollow brass, 22mm; Rupert Street, Gambrinus, Charles Manzel (2, copper and aluminium), both 31mm (Hayes 501; Noble II, 1175); St Paul’s Churchyard, Hall and Allan, brass, 24mm; Spitalfields, Ingw. Bath, brass Shilling by R. Neal, 25mm; Stratford, London CSL, 2 Shillings, 23mm (Rains 4); Westminster, Westminster Street Rail Co Ltd, oval gilt, horse-drawn tram passing Marble Arch, 24 x 18mm (Smith 475PF); together with Parthenon Rooms, lead Threepence, 32mm (D & W 93/359; MG 638; Noble II, 804); Royal Arsenal CSL, brass £1 by Sale, 23mm (Rains 62); St Olave’s Union, copper Threepence, rev. bread ticket, 31mm [25]. Mostly very fine £150-200

Provenance: Last F.W. Yeates Collection, F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin August 1923].

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