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19th Century, Wolverton, Red Lion Inn, copper Three-Halfpence check, red lion wolverton around inn, rev. value, edge plain, 21mm, 4.34g/12h (Batty 3); Wolverton Workmen’s Social Club, brass Penny checks (3, different obv. dies), by Ardill, Leeds, wolverton workmen’s social club in four lines, rev. value, edge grained, 22mm, 3.10g/12h, edge plain, 22mm, 3.01g/12h, and 23mm, 3.13g/12h; Wolverton Co-operative Society Ltd, Dairy Dept checks (5), zinc Threepence, 26mm, 3.88g/12h; aluminium Pennies (2), round, 25mm, 1.34g/12h, octagonal, 26mm, 1.42g/12h (Rains –), Three-Farthings, 24mm, 1.02g/12h, Halfpenny, 22mm, 0.96g/12h; uniface aluminium Half-Pint check with orange wash, 26mm, 1.35g; Wolverton Industrial & Provident Society, white metal Halfcrown check, rev. half crown in wreath, edge grained, 25mm, 4.42g/12h (Rains –); Three-Halfpence checks (2), in aluminium and cream fibre, both 25mm, 1.40g/12h, 1.15g/12h; Wolverton Industrial & Provident Society Ltd, bracteate brass checks (2), Penny, 24mm, 1.58g (Rains –), and Halfpenny, 21mm, 0.73g (Rains –); octagonal brass 1lb Loaf check, 25mm, 4.51g/12h; copper Bread checks (2), oval, 31 x 22mm, 5.80g/12h, and round, 25mm, 4.69g/12h [18]. About very fine and better, an excellent group, many rare (£80-100)

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

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Provenance:
Red Lion Christie’s Auction, 25-26 February 1980, lot 719 (part).
WWSC obv. 1 Glendining Auction, 10 July 1991, lot 126 (part).
WWSC obv. 2 bt A Wager November 1983.
WWSC obv. 3 gift of G Ferguson, February 1986.
CSL 3d bt A Judd September 1997.
CSL Half Pint bt G Scott October 1997.
IPS cream fibre bt P Hanson July 1989.
IPSL 1d bt A Judd December 1998.
IPSL Halfpenny bt G Scott July 1998.
IPSL Loaf bt A Judd October 1995.
IPSL oval Bread bt J Whitmore July 1989.

All others Glendining Auction, 10 July 1991, lot 141 (part);
bt S Monks July 1991.

The order of striking of the Wolverton Workmen’s Social Club checks can be determined by the state of the flaws on the rims of the single rev. die.
Wolverton Co-Operative Society Ltd and Wolverton Industrial & Provident Society Ltd, both established 1874