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21–23 September 2016

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№ 648

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21 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£50

Peck, C.W., English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum, 1558-1958, 2nd edn, London, 1964, xx + 648pp, 50 fine collotype plates (Manville 1115). Publisher’s blue cloth; a clean working copy with a few pencil annotations, inscribed to Jeff Gardiner from his wife, February 1967, on first free endpaper and with publicity leaflet by the Empire Coin Co [Q.D. Bowers] relating to Bowers’ acquisition of Peck’s 1954 Penny on 10 December 1963 [weight 2.2 kg] £60-80

Provenance: Ex libris Jeffrey Gardiner