18th Century British Trade Tokens

Lancashire, Liverpool, Thomas Clarke, Halfpenny, 1791, ship sailing right, rev. arms, edge payable at the warehouse of richard paley xx, 11.98g/6h (DH 71, edge unlisted). Very fine and of the highest rarity; believed to be the only known specimen of a genuine Clarke token with an incorrect edge £90-120

Provenance: P.D. Greenall Collection, Baldwin Auction 16, 30 October 1997, lot 350 (part); bt M.J. Dickinson.

Sold with a handwritten note by Greenall