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Miscellaneous, Love token, an Anglesey, Amlwch, Parys Mine Co, Penny, worn smooth and engraved (M. Rodnes, J Hayes), the vacui filled with hearts, doves and sprigs of thistles, etc, 25.05g. Pierced in centre, fine, competent style £25-35
Hammer Price: £45
Miscellaneous, Love token, a Co WICKLOW, Cronebane, Associated Irish Mine Co Lutwyche imitation Halfpenny, worn smooth and engraved (Sally Pringle Belfast), rev. (AMO Ante alias Quae posui [––] amant, J.M.), edge payable at cronebane lodge or in dublin, 9.96g. About fine, interesting £60-80
Hammer Price: £120
Miscellaneous, Square token or weight, copper, crowned facing half-length figure of king holding sword and globus cruciger, rev. initials fba within a wreath, uncertain mark below, 14mm, 5.16g. Fair to fine; worthy of further research £40-60
Hammer Price: £70
Miscellaneous, Tokens, checks, etc (50), all in base metal, including a Lutwyche Anti-Slavery Halfpenny [50]. Varied state £80-100
Hammer Price: £85
Miscellaneous, Tokens, tickets, medals, etc (66), from Pontardawe, Bristol (1577 octagonal issue), Clipstone, Griffiths & Farran’s School Attendance Penny, etc [66]. Varied state £40-50
Hammer Price: £90
Miscellaneous, A set of brass scales and square knobbed weights (9), for £3 12s, 36, 27 and 18 Shillings, 13 Shillings and Sixpence, 1 Guinea and Half-Guinea, 6 and 3 Grains, in wooden case with tariff label on inside lid (cf. W 2395ff) [Lot]. Good order but hinges of case broken £40-50
Hammer Price: £80
Clubs and Societies, London, Pall Mall, Union Club, 1799, copper, clasped hands, rev. heart, 23mm, 5.04g/12h (D & W 194/741; MG 1140; Noble II, 942). New Union Society, uniface copper, clasped hands, 28mm, 7.61g (D & W 195/744); together with other base metal tickets (7), from London, Worcester, Dublin, etc [9]. First two very fine, others in varied state £70-100
Hammer Price: £55
Clubs and Societies, The Brotherly Society, an engraved oval silver pass, two men shaking hands within shield crowned, love and unity on scroll below, back engraved (HW, 25 June 1798), hallmarked iw London 1798, 75 x 47mm, 19.56g (D & W 108/63). About very fine and toned, very rare; with integral loop for suspension £150-200
Hammer Price: £250
Commerce, HEREFORDSHIRE, Hereford, Corporation, copper, arms and supporters, rev. coke, unissued, 41mm, 18.35g/12h. Fine, reverse better, rare £30-40
Hammer Price: £20
The Law, YORKSHIRE, York, oval silver Attorney’s Medal of Admission, 1813, by Younge & Deakin, frontal elevation of the Law Courts, rev. the attornies medal of admission to the courts, not transferable, named (Mr Wm. Robinson), 44 x 35mm, 27.11g/12h (D & W 100/402). Very fine and toned, extremely rare £400-600
Hammer Price: £650
Mining, CUMBERLAND, Workington, John Curwen, copper [1725-7], arms, rev. name in two lines, 26mm, 5.70g/12h (Finlay 38; D & W 286/46). Fine £40-50
Hammer Price: £25
Mining, AYRSHIRE, Irvine, Warrix Colliery, 1811, copper bracteate, ship sailing left, warrix above, coalrie and date below, 30mm, 4.28g (Brodie 337, this piece). About very fine and extremely rare £150-200
Hammer Price: £200
Mining, Ayrshire, Kilmarnock, ‘Culm’, 1786, copper bracteate, 23mm, 1.21g (D & W 290/101; Brodie –; cf. DNW 62, 1362). Very fine and very rare £90-120
Mining, AYRSHIRE, Saltcoats, Peck, brass, ship sailing right, three pennants flying, rev. a load of coals raised, 25mm, 3.29g/6h (D & W 294/130; Seaby ST 702; Brodie 354, this piece). Very fine and well struck, very rare £120-150
Hammer Price: £170
Parks and Gardens, Lancashire, Liverpool, Zoological Gardens (Est. 1833), Thomas Atkins, copper, elephant, visitors check, rev. legend, 32mm, 7.80g/12h (D & W 62/139; MG 866; Noble II, 771); together with other base metal tickets (4), from Sheffield, Manchester, etc [5]. Fine and better £50-70
Parks and Gardens, Somerset, Bath, King James’s Palace, brass Sixpence, bust of James II left, rev. legend, countermarked rt monogram [Robert Tanner], 31mm, 9.56g/6h (Minnitt/Young 65; D & W 45/14; MG 698; cf. DNW T6, 648). Good fine, dirty £40-60
Hammer Price: £35
Railways, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Gloucester and Cheltenham Railway, c. 1831, a bronze ticket or pass, unsigned, locomotive pulling train to right, barge in foreground, rev. royal william locomotive engine class no. 1, 41mm (D & W 326/20; E 1253; Moyaux 2; Holland p.30). Small stain in upper reverse field, otherwise about extremely fine £100-150
Hammer Price: £300
Theatre and Entertainment, London, Covent Garden, Theatre Royal, 1796, copper, box, rev. cross formed of rings, 27mm, 5.62g (D & W 12/122; MG 214; Noble II, 647); Drury Lane, Theatre Royal, uniface copper, drury lane theatre around pit, back engraved (563), 30mm, 8.51g (D & W 120/226; MG 54; Noble II, 676); octagonal brass, rev. dress circle, 30mm, 6.98g/12h (D & W 21/237); Strand, Lyceum, Theatre Royal, English Opera House, uniface copper, box, 37mm, 12.17g (D & W –; Mitchiner 5720; Noble...
Hammer Price: £140
Theatre and Entertainment, London, Haymarket, Haymarket Theatre, uniface oval brass, haymarket pit, back scratched ‘1821’, 37 x 37mm, 9.58g (D & W –; MG 175). Minor surface marks, otherwise about very fine, very rare; set in double gold surround mount with loop for suspension £200-250
Hammer Price: £320
Theatre and Entertainment, London, Drury Lane, Theatre Royal, 1776, uniface copper, box above central ornament, sprig of leaves below, ornamented border, 32mm, 13.16g (D & W 19/203; MG 18 var; Noble II, 670). Minor surface marks, otherwise about very fine, very rare; set in double gold surround mount with loop for suspension £200-250
Theatre and Entertainment, Northamptonshire, Northampton, Northampton Theatre, silver, erected 1805, rev. wreath of palm and oak, un-numbered, 38mm, 20.93g/12h (D & W 37/397; MG 429; Noble II, 725). Very fine and dark-toned, rare £120-150
Theatre and Entertainment, Co DUBLIN, Dublin, Private Theatre [1796], copper, by W. Mossop, robed figures of Tragedy, Comedy and Lyric supporting scroll, rev. un-named, 35mm, 17.72g/12h (D & W 5/40; Gilbert 14; Frazer p.451; cf. T. Millett FPL 2007, 78; cf. Baldwin FPL 1995, 274; cf. DNW M5, 1079). Minor rim and surface marks, otherwise very fine and patinated, rare £100-150
Boon, G.C., Welsh Tokens of the 17th Century, Cardiff, 1973, 144pp, illustrations in text, inscribed by the author to Prof. Henry Loyn on first free endpaper; Coxall, J., The Walthamstow Tokens, the 1988 Walthamstow reprint, 26pp + 8pp supplement, 5 plates, copy no.116; Withers, P. and Bente, British Copper Tokens 1811-1820, Llanfyllin, 1999, 264pp, illustrations in text; Connor, R.D., and Simpson, A.D.C., Weights and Measures in Scotland: A European Perspective, Edinburgh, 2004, xvi +...
Boyne, W., Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland, London, 1858, xxiii + 630pp, 42 engraved plates; Rowe, C.M., Salisbury’s Local Coinage, Salisbury, 1966, 88pp, illustrations in text, dj; Schwer, S.E., Schwer Price Guide to Unofficial Farthings, Colchester, 1986 [incorporating Bell, R.C., Unofficial Farthings 1820-1870], 248pp + prices [3]. First rebound in blue cloth and some plates photocopies, others very fine and clean £30-40
Hammer Price: £50
Conder, J., An Arrangement of Provincial Coins, Tokens and Medalets issued in Great Britain, Ireland and the Colonies, 2nd edn, London, 1799, address, preface [by J. Wright], 330pp + errata page, 3 engraved plates. Later maroon half-leather, ribbed spine; ‘Sir George Chetwynd purchased the whole of Author’s Collection and the Cabinet for twenty guineas’ pencilled on third free endpaper, spine partly detached and a few pencil annotations, otherwise clean £70-90
Manton, J.O., and Hollis, E., Buckinghamshire Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century, Buckingham, 1933, foreword + 118pp, 13 engraved plates. Publishers’ green cloth, lettering in gilt on spine, no.67 of 75 overprints authorised for the Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society; a few minor deletions in pen, otherwise a very fine and clean copy, rare £80-100
Mathias, P., English Trade Tokens, the Industrial Revolution Illustrated, London, 1962, 64pp including 16 plates; Porritt, A., Matthew Young and his Numismatic Correspondents a century and a half ago, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1967, 36pp; Wetton, J.L., Seventeenth Century Tradesmens’ Tokens, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1969, 70pp, including 15 plates; Orr, M.B., Special Gazateer of Scotland relating to the Names of Communion Tokens to their Shires, np, nd, 42pp, rectos; Boon, G.C., Welsh Industrial...
Hammer Price: £30
Whitelaw, Rev. H.A., Communion Tokens… of…Dumfriesshire, Dumfries, 1911, 115pp, 10 plates, no.79 [of 170], signed by the author. Original blue boards; a fine copy £60-80
Hammer Price: £40
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