Auction Catalogue

11 April 2012

Starting at 12:00 PM

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British Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 517

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11 April 2012

Hammer Price:
£170

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, LANCASHIRE, Accrington, Accrington Corporation Steam Tramways Co, brass Threepence, 31mm (Smith 5 BD); STAFFORDSHIRE, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Potteries Street Railway Co Ltd, oval brass, 23 x 18mm (Smith 730 PB); YORKSHIRE, Bradford, Bradford City Tramways, oval brass Penny, 30 x 18mm (Smith 115C); Sheffield, Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, 1838, copper (3), omnibus check, stamped 852, 967, 1584, all 27mm (Smith 685A; D & W 330/50); John Shortridge, copper Threepence, 1852, sheffield and heeley omnibus, 27 x 18mm (Smith 685C); LANARKSHIRE, Glasgow, Andrew Menzies, oval brass Twopence, 1859, city omnibus fare, 27 x 18mm (Smith 420E; Brodie 305) [8]. Sheffield and Rotherham extremely fine and better with almost full original colour, others very fine, a good group £120-150

Provenance: Bt J.D. King 1986-7.

Fifth only illustrated