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№ 1243

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15 June 2017

Hammer Price:
£50

Burn, J.H., A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century, presented to the Corporation Library by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, 2nd edn, London, 1855, xcv + 287pp, 3 engraved plates (Manville 392), first free endpaper signed L. Beaufoy, from Councillor Maurice Eschwege (Liverpool), 1.12.31; Boyne, W., Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland, London, 1858, xxiii + 630pp, 42 engraved plates (Manville 403); Hilton Price, F.G., Some Account of the Business of Alderman Edward Backwell, Goldsmith and Banker in the 17th Century, np, nd [from Trans. London & Middlesex Arch. Soc., London, 1890], pp.191-340; Wheatley, H.B., Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In, 5th edn, London, 1907, viii + 311pp [4]. Third in modern quarter-leather, ribbed spine, others in publishers’ cloth; generally clean copies [weight 3 kg] £80-100

Provenance: Ex libris Jeffrey Gardiner, additionally: first ex libris Peter and Mary Berg, with their bookplate, second ex libris Edward Lewton Penny, Sutton Courteney, Berks, 1885, and with his bookplate.

Maurice Eschwege (1871-1943), a Jewish jeweller and pawnbroker at 47 Lime street, Liverpool, dealt in coins as a sideline; one of his youngest customers was Charles Wilson Peck (1901-68), who told the cataloguer that he bought his first coin, a 1797 cartwheel twopence, from Eschwege in 1907; Peck still owned the coin at the time of his death. Eschwege became a Labour councillor for the St Ann’s ward in 1926 and served until at least 1929, in which year he polled 81% of the local vote. He sold his coin collection at Sotheby’s in March 1931