Coins, Tokens, Historical Medals, Paper Money and Numismatic Books

Exhibitions and Museums, TICKETS and PASSES, Exhibitions and Museums, Old Cavendish Street, Summers’s Museum, Richard Summers, copper Halfpenny, 1797, head of a wild man full facing, a wild man’s head from the land of jesso to be seen at, rev. summers’s museum no. 24 old cavendish street oxford street, paintings bought sold or exchanged, dealer in curiosities &c around small rs cypher, edge plain, 16.01g/7h (Young, Entertainments, p.48, this piece; W –; D & W 82/262; DH Middlesex 905). Obverse about extremely fine, reverse very fine, very rare £200-260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection.

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Provenance: A Collection of 18th Century Trade Tokens, Part 2, Mark Rasmussen FPL 9, March 2006 (C 274).

Richard Summers, perfumer and dealer in paintings and curiosities, 24 Old Cavendish street