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17th Century, Wooburn, Jonathan Kingham, Halfpenny, water-wheel, mill-rind, 1.94g/12h, rev. die in later stage with initials ik added (Berry & Morley 205, and BNJ 1973, pl.iv, 205, this piece; SCBI Norweb 353, same dies; BW. 154C). Very fine and very rare; the finest example known to the cataloguer (£80-100)

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 361 (part);
F E Baker Collection, October 1977 [from Spink, September 1929]. See Colour Plate III

Jonathan Kingham (†1676), paper miller, also Quaker; his wife’s name was Anne. A 1670 record shows that Kingham’s mill produced both corn and paper; a 1679 Quaker record refers to one of his daughters, Mary, having ‘walked disorderly and entertained a man of ye world, being herself before engaged to another man’