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

№ 543 x

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£220

Political and Social series: Tokens, Lutwyche’s Buck Society Halfpence, 1796 (4), london and engrailed left edge, 8.56g/6h (DH 1041; D & W 152/394), london and crosses edge, 9.16g/6h (DH 1041b), edge grained, 7.73g/12h (DH 1041e), edge plain, 9.96g/6h (DH 1041f), and mule Halfpence (3), revs. Britannia, london and engrailed edge, 10.60g/6h (DH 1042; D & W 152/395), london and crosses edge, 10.21g/6h (DH 1042a), edge plain, 10.28g/6h (DH 1042b; Bell, p.14, this piece); Lutwyche’s Earl Stanhope Halfpenny, edge grained, 9.82g/6h (DH 1040); Lutwyche’s ‘General Convenience’ Halfpence, 1795 (2), edge grained, 9.43g/6h (DH 1018a), edge plain, 10.81g/6h (DH 1018b), and mule Halfpence (3), revs. Britannia (2), london and engrailed edge, 7.74g/3h (DH 1019), edge plain, 5.92g/3h (DH 1019a), plough, london and engrailed edge, 10.98g/12h (DH 1020) [13]. DH 1018a, 1041, 1042 and 1042a extremely fine, first with considerable original colour, second with collectors’ number ‘899’ inked on obverse, DH 1019a, 1020, 1041b and 1041f in varied state, others generally very fine
£90-120

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

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Provenance: *DH 1018a bt R. Gladdle January 1995; DH 1018b bt R. Gladdle April 1992; DH 1019 bt P. Flanagan April 1982; DH 1019a bt A. Davisson July 1996; DH 1020 bt S. Cordova October 1991; DH 1040 bt M.Z. Gerson April 1978; DH 1041 D.T. Batty Collection, bt J.A. Bobbe May 1999; DH 1041b bt M.Z. Gerson July 1979; DH 1041e bt R. Grellman March 1982; DH 1041f bt J. Spingarn November 1997; DH 1042 bt R. Gladdle September 1991; DH 1042a bt J.A. Bobbe December 1987; DH 1042b R.C. Bell Collection, DNW Auction 26, 1 October 1996, lot 105 (part), bt R. Gladdle November 1996