Auction Catalogue

6 October 2010

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books including the David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 383 x

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£340

Paul Skidmore series, Churches, Halfpence (10), Cripplegate, St Giles’s, edge plain, 14.03g/12h (DH 576); Crutched Friars, Allhallows, 1797, edge partly grained, 9.80g/12h (DH 578); Dukes Place, St James’s, coventry edge, 12.72g/1h (DH 579); Eastcheap, St Clements, edge plain, 10.18g/12h (DH 580); Fleet Street, St Bride’s, coventry edge, 13.20g/11h (DH 583); St Dunstan’s, coventry edge, 13.19g/12h (DH 584); Friday Street, St Mathew’s, edge plain, 11.73g/11h (DH 585); Garlick Hythe [Garlick Hill], St James’s, coventry edge, 12.42g/12h (DH 586); Gracechurch Street, St Bennet’s (2), undated, coventry edge, 13.18g/10h (DH 588), 1797, edge plain, 10.18g/6h (DH 589) [10]. DH 578 with advanced obverse die flaw and 588 both lacquered, former rare, others about extremely fine and better, DH 580 and 584 with considerable original colour, DH 586 very rare £120-150

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

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Provenance: DH 576 bt R. Gladdle September 1990; DH 578 bt W. Anderson January 1996; DH 579 W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lot 181 (part) [from Lincoln March 1904], T.A. Jan Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 26, 9 February 1983, lot 305 (part), bt J.A. Bobbe January 1984; DH 580 F.W. Yeates Collection, W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lot 181 (part) [from Spink December 1914], T.A. Jan Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 26, 9 February 1983, lot 305 (part), bt J.A. Bobbe December 1987; DH 583 bt A. Davisson May 1992; *DH 584 T.A. Jan Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 26, 9 February 1983, lot 306 (part), M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 237 (part), bt R. Gladdle August 1986; DH 585 bt J.A. Bobbe January 1984; DH 586 W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lot 182 (part) [from Spink May 1905], T.A. Jan Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 26, 9 February 1983, lot 306 (part), bt J.A. Bobbe January 1984; DH 588 T.A. Jan Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 26, 9 February 1983, lot 306 (part), M.Z. Gerson Collection, W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty, Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 570 (part); DH 589 bt S. Cordova May 1993