British Tokens

LANCASHIRE, Manchester, Free Trade Hall, 1856, oval silver ticket, legend above date, named (Martha Booth), rev. free ticket not transferable, engraved 148 in centre, 31 x 24mm, 7.92g/12h (D & W –; MG –). Pierced for wearing, good very fine and dark-toned, very rare £80-100

Provenance: W.J. Noble Collection, Part II, Noble Numismatics Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 970 (part) [from Baldwin 1990]; J.N. Spencer Collection