Auction Catalogue

6 October 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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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

№ 809

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£220

18th Century Tokens, Northumberland, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Spence’s mule Halfpence (3), sailor, revs. conjoined heads of man and ass, 10.59g/6h (DH 12), Pandora’s breeches, 10.72g/6h (DH 13), shepherd, 10.85g/6h (DH 15) [3]. DH 13 very fine, others about extremely fine and better, first attractively patinated
£140-180

Provenance: DH 12 SCMB June 1964, M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 58, 30 April 1987, lot 218 (part) [from J.A. Bobbe February 1981], bt M.J. Dickinson; DH 13 J.R. Farnell Sr Collection, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet Auction (New York), 26 May 1982, lot 5 (part), M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 58, 30 April 1987, lot 218 (part), bt M.J. Dickinson.

DH 15 only illustrated