Auction Catalogue

19 March 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books and Banknotes. Includes the Ellen Judson Collection of British Tokens (Part II)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1498

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19 March 2003

Hammer Price:
£60

Burns, T., Old Scottish Communion Plate, Edinburgh, 1892, xxxii + 651pp, 56 plates, other engravings in text, copy no.311, signed by the author. Original red cloth, gilt, spine neatly repaired, t.e.g.; with signatures of J.W. Gibson, A.J.H. Gibson and Neil G. Taverner on first free endpaper, and an advertisement for communion plate by Mappin & Webb tipped-in at back (£80-100)

Provenance:
Ex libris Neil Taverner.

Edition of 500 copies. Contains much useful information on, and plates of, communion tokens, taken from notes on the series made by R.W. Cochran-Patrick