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17th Century, Chesham, Abraham Garraway, Halfpenny, 1671, crossed tobacco pipes, 1.80g/3h (Berry & Morley 58, and BNJ 1973, p.112, P 90°, this piece; BW. 46). Good very fine and attractively patinated, extremely rare; the best of the two specimens in private hands (£150-200)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Tokens.

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Provenance:
Glendining Auction, 11-12 July 1929, lot 360 (part);
F E Baker Collection, October 1977 [from Spink, September 1929]. See Colour Plate III

Abraham Garraway (†1705), tobacconist; his first wife’s name was Mary (†1683) and his second wife’s name Anne