British Tokens

A group of correspondence relating to tokens, tickets and passes, viz. ALS from Henry C. Drury at 48 Fitzwilliam Square W., Dublin, to Francis Cokayne (2), 3 May 1935 and 23 October 1935, concerning Armagh and Richill tokens in the museums in Dublin and Belfast, together with a stamped envelope addressed to Cokayne at 1 Bryanston Square, London W1; TLS from A. Deane to H.C. Drury, 12 September 1935, concerning Irish silver tokens in Belfast museum; ALS from Derek Allen at the British Museum to Francis Cokayne (3), 6 April 1937, 9 April 1937 and 14 April 1937, concerning Vauxhall Gardens and other tickets, exchanges with British Museum duplicates and pieces that were missing, presumed stolen, from the Montagu Guest collection; ALS from Fred Baldwin at 3 Robert Street, London WC2 to Francis Cokayne, 1 December 1938, offering Cokayne the option of purchasing lot 48 from the Ferguson collection, Sotheby’s 30 November 1938; ALS from V.B. Crowther-Beynon at Beckington, Bath, to Francis Cokayne, 9 May 1939, concerning weights and scales; together with a description of Marylebone Gardens and their tickets in a 19th-century hand and an engraved bookplate of Robert Day, Vice-President of the RH&AS of Ireland, bearing details of a silver-gilt badge of the Dublin Beef Steak Club awarded to John Poole, Esq, presumed to have been once in Day’s collection [Lot]. Fine, an interesting group £50-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, 19th Century Tokens from the Collection of the Late Francis Cokayne.

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