Auction Catalogue

29 September 2005

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The Important Collection of 18th Century Tokens formed by the late Dr David L Spence, of Pittsburgh (Part II)

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

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Lot

№ 1401

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29 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£180

Foundling Fields, James Burton, Halfpence, 1795 (2), stop at end of legend, edge grained, 6.96g/6h (DH 304), flaw at end of legend, edge grained, 7.91g/6h (DH 305); Great Portland Street, Joseph Moore, Halfpence, 1795 (2), edge coarsely grained, 10.42g/12h (DH 389), edge finely grained, 10.02g/12h (DH 389a); Haymarket, Francis Shackelton, Halfpence, 1794 (3), all reading london, unicorn’s tail to l, 9.39g/12h (DH 476), unicorn’s tail to o (2), suffolk-street edge, 9.28g/12h (DH 477), dublin edge, 8.89g/12h (DH 477a) [7]. First two good very fine and patinated, others generally extremely fine with original colour, first extremely rare, very few specimens known (£150-200)

Provenance:
Fawcett/Litman Collection, additionally:
*DH 304, 476, 477 and 477a W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lots 155 and 174 (parts) [304 from Baldwin November 1913, 476 from Lincoln April 1907, 477 from Lincoln May 1914, 477a gift of ‘J.E.’]
DH 305 and 389 F.W. Lincoln Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 February 1936, lots 241 and 249 (parts) [305 from Verity, 389 from Baldwin].

James Burton (
c. 1764-1837), developer of much of the Foundling Hospital estate in the 1790s (Dykes, BNJ 1999, p.179). Joseph Moore, laceman, haberdasher and draper, 116 Great Portland street. Francis Shackelton, tallowchandler, 12 Little Suffolk street, Haymarket, supplier of candles to the Duke of York