Auction Catalogue

11 April 2012

Starting at 12:00 PM

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British Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 258

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11 April 2012

Hammer Price:
£240

18th Century Tokens, Lothian (Midlothian), Edinburgh, Thomas and Alexander Hutchison, imitation Halfpence (13), 1791 (6), 10.83g/6h (DH 38), 9.64g/6h (DH 39), 10.44g/6h (DH 39a), 11.21g/6h, 10.28g/6h (both DH 40, one with partly filled die above date), 10.81g/12h (DH 40b), 1792 (7), 10.12g/6h (DH 47/47h), 9.81g/6h (DH 47a), 7.25g/6h (DH 47b), 9.35g/6h (DH 47c), 8.82g/12h (DH 47d), 9.74g/6h (DH 48), 9.13g/6h (DH 48a); Lutwyche’s mule Halfpence (4), ship type (2), 9.82g/6h (DH 50), 10.03g/6h (DH 50a), Hibernia type (2), london edge, 9.25g/6h (DH 51), edge payable at bolingbrokes haberdasher norwich, 9.53g/6h (DH 51, edge unlisted); mule Farthing, 1792, 3.49g/12h (DH 68) [18]. DH 47a, 48a and 51 about extremely fine with original colour, DH 51 with unlisted edge fair, others generally fine to very fine, some better
£120-150

Provenance: DH 38 bt J.L. Holman July 2001; DH 39 bt September 1997; DH 39a, 40b, 47, 47a, 47d and 48 bt J.L. Holman September 2000; DH 40 at 11.21g bt April 1995; DH 40 at 10.28g bt J. Whitmore April 2010; DH 47b bt November 2003; DH 47c bt J.L. Holman April 2004; *DH 48a A Good Collection of 18th Century Tokens, DNW Auction 29, 9 April 1997, lot 474 (part); DH 50 DNW Auction 29, 9 April 1997, lot 375 (part); DH 50a bt August 1997; DH 51 W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 1299 (part) [from Spink 1976], bt R. Gladdle August 1998; DH 51 unlisted edge bt October 2006; DH 68 bt R. Gladdle February 1997