British Tokens

Numismatists Tokens and Ephemera, YORKSHIRE, Halifax, Samuel Hamer, Silver Wedding, 1911 (5), copper, bronzed, bright brass, bright aluminium and dull aluminium, united for mutual happiness above clasped hands, revs. fancy softly seems to glide, etc, edges whom god hath joined let none separate, all 35mm, 24.86g/12h, 24.73g/12h, 22.91g/12h, 8.06g/12h, 7.94g/12h (W 3041; Bell, 1966, A8) [5]. Third and fourth extremely fine with some light spotting, others virtually as struck £150-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Late David Griffiths Collection.

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Provenance: First S. Sweet Collection, Glendining Auction, 28 June 1989, lot 421 (part); second and fourth R. Streather Collection, Spink Auction 19, 3 March 1982, lot 266 (part); last W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B, 3-4 August 1999, lot 428 (part) [from Spink 1973].

Samuel Hamer married Vina Jowett (b. 1858) on 12 June 1886; the couple had three daughters, one of whom died in infancy