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

№ 987

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£140

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, CHESHIRE, Birkenhead, Woodside Ferry, Yearly Contractor copper checks (3), 1862, no. 754 (Edge T10), 1864, no. 698 (Edge T12), 1865, no. 1826 (Edge T13); Birkenhead Corporation Ferries, brass Wages coupon, no. 469 (Edge T25); LANCASHIRE, Liverpool, M[ersey]
D[ocks] & H[arbour] B[oard], uniface Engineers check, stamped
c 133, 35mm; Preston, Preston & Ribble Navigation, a uniface octagonal brass check, 30mm [6]. First three very fine and scarce, others fine, all pierced as issued £90-120

Provenance: S.A. Holland Collection [*first and *third bt J. Whitmore November 1999, sixth bt J. Whitmore November 1994, others bt H. Simmons July 2001]