Auction Catalogue

6 October 2010

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David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 4223

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£120

Smith, R.A., and others, (eds), Catalogue of the Montague Guest Collection of Badges, Tokens and Passes. Presented in 1907 to the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. 1st edn, London, British Museum, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1930. 8vo, original blue cloth. 8 plates, viii, (2), 206, (1) pp. First free end paper inscribed ‘Presented by the Trustees of the British Museum by the desire of the late Montague Guest Esq. July 1930’ in the hand of A.W. Waters; card from Montague Guest to Waters, dated 16 December 1898, in affixed folder; title page with letter from Montague Guest to Waters, dated 20 March 1901, partly pasted-down (Manville 895); Young, D., Index To The Montague Guest Collection of Badges, Tokens and Passes in the British Museum, 12pp, loosely inserted. Light foxing, otherwise a fine copy of the first and rare by association [2]. £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Literature.

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Provenance: First ex libris A.W. Waters, with his bookplate and complimentary card from the Director of the British Museum, P. Munro Walker, DNW Auction T5, 8 November 2007, lot 265