Auction Catalogue

1 October 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 616

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1 October 2014

Hammer Price:
£230

Davis, W.J., The Nineteenth Century Token Coinage, London, 1904, 4to, xlvii + 277pp, 33 fine plates, copy no.197 (Manville 623). Original brown quarter morocco, gilt, t.e.g.; internally fine and clean, with typed and signed letter from Davis to J.H. Yoxall, MP, 25 July 1908, bound in at front, first endpaper with dedication to Yoxall from the author, 22 July 1908 £100-150

Provenance: The property of a descendant of W.J. Davis, additionally: ex libris Sir James Henry Yoxall (1857-1925), Liberal MP for Nottingham West, 1895-1918, and general secretary of the National Union of Teachers