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

№ 542 x

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£1,050

Political and Social series: Tokens, Lutwyche’s Anti-Slavery Halfpence (8), chained negro kneeling, revs. clasped hands, reading opression, dublin edge, 9.16g/6h (DH 1037); reading oppression (7), cross at end of legend (4), ballymurtagh edge, 8.56g/6h (DH 1038), dublin edge, 9.42g/6h (DH 1038a), lancaster edge, 9.80g/6h (DH 1038b), york edge, 9.74g/6h (DH 1038c); rosette at end of legend (3), dublin edge, 9.94g/3h (DH 1039a), london edge, 9.38g/3h (DH 1039b, large flan), edge plain, 7.56g/3h (DH 1039d) [8]. DH 1038c about extremely fine but area of old corrosion in obverse field, DH 1037, 1039a, 1039b and 1039c in varied state, others generally very fine £150-200

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

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Provenance: DH 1037 bt M.Z. Gerson January 1979; DH 1038 and 1038a bt J.A. Bobbe February 1982; DH 1038b T. Hill Collection, P.C. Deane Collection [from Seaby], W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty, Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 678 (part), bt A. Davisson September 1998; *DH 1038c bt M.Z. Gerson March 1981; DH 1039a bt P. Flanagan April 1980; DH 1039b bt J.A. Bobbe November 2000; DH 1039d bt J.A. Bobbe April 1981