18th Century British Trade Tokens

Staffordshire, Leek, Phillips & Ford, Kempson's Halfpence, 1793 (9), large letters on rev. (2), leek edge, 11.67g/6h (DH 10), edge plain, 11.76g/12h (DH 10b), small letters (7), leek edge (5), 11.82g/7h (DH 11, large [30mm] flan; Bell, CC p.161, this piece), 11.68g/7h (DH 12), 9.83g/6h (DH 13), 9.31g/6h (DH 14), 12.05g/12h DH 15), edge grained, 9.67g/7h (DH 13a), birmingham edge, 8.97g/6h (DH 14a); mule Halfpence by Lutwyche (3), revs. Justice, sleaford edge, 9.51g/6h (DH 16), edge plain, 10.16g/6h (DH 16a), edge grained, 9.87g/6h (DH 17) [12]. DH 13 and 14a fine, DH 13a extremely fine, others very fine and better, a good group of variants, DH 16 very rare £100-150

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

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Provenance: DH 10 and 11 R.C. Bell Collection, DNW Auction 26, 1 October 1996, lot 128 (part), bt R. Gladdle November 1996; DH 10b J.R. Farnell Collection, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet Auction (New York), 26 May 1982, lot 22 (part), bt J.A. Bobbe July 1982; DH 12 bt F. Seymour September 1994; DH 13 Coin Galleries Mailbid Sale, 12 April 2000 (1188); DH 13a bt J.A. Bobbe May 1997; DH 14 bt R. Gladdle April 1988; DH 14a bt P. Flanagan November 1981; DH 15 bt P. Flanagan October 1980; *DH 16 bt J. Spingarn August 1997; DH 16a bt M.Z. Gerson November 1981; DH 17 bt P. Flanagan June 1985