Auction Catalogue

1 October 2014

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British Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 627

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1 October 2014

Hammer Price:
£150

Waters, A.W., Notes Gleaned from Contemporary Literature &c. respecting the Issuers of the Eighteenth Century Tokens struck for the County of Middlesex, Leamington Spa, 1906, 98pp + 6 plates, including portraits of Orchard and Young and a caricature of Swainson, copy no. 72, signed by the author (Manville 654). Original dark maroon cloth, t.e.g.; first title page with dedicatory inscription from the author to William Norman ‘for the sake of old times’, fine and clean £100-150

Provenance: Ex libris William Norman; David Griffiths [from Spink 1981]