British Tokens

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, LANARKSHIRE, Glasgow, British Key & Property Registry Ltd, nickel tags (5, Hope Street [4] and Newton Place), all 32 x 19mm; G. Capaldi, brass, 30mm (Brodie 451); Clyde Iron Works, copper, hires, 22mm (Brodie 452, this piece); Findlayson & Logan, brass, 24mm (Brodie 456); R.W. Forsyth (3), all brass, all different, 25 and 26mm (2) (Brodie 456; ST 605, 606; MG 1276); J. Fraser, brass Twopence, 24mm; Gardiner & Co, button impression, 28mm; General Key & Property Registry, nickel tag, 32 x 19mm; Glasgow Automatic Machine Co, brass, 30mm (3, two different varieties) (Brodie 457); Great Western Cooking Depot, oval brass Sevenpence, stamped 5, and Fivepence, stamped 13, both 43 x 32mm [19]. Two Automatic Machine Co pieces fire-damaged, others generally about very fine, Clyde Iron Works very rare, last two scarce £150-200

Provenance: Capaldi bt J.G. Scott November 2008; *Clyde Iron Works N.G. Brodie Collection, DNW Auction 55, 8 October 2002, lot 452 [from Format March 1994], bt T.C. Millett October 2005; Findlayson bt D. Stuart June 2008; Forsyth 25mm and one 26mm A.B. Pardoe Collection, DNW Auction 31, 17 September 1997, lot 514 (part) [from C. Brunel October 1985]; Fraser bt D. Stuart May 2010; G.W. Cooking Sevenpence bt September 2009; *G.W. Cooking Fivepence bt H. Simmons October 2010