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

Bath, Mary Lambe & Son, Lutwyche’s Penny, 1794, on demand edge, 21.37g/6h (DH 8); Halfpence (7), 1794 (6), lambe edge, 10.41g/6h (DH 50), leek edge, 11.30g/6h (DH 50b), lancaster edge, 12.07g/6h (DH 50c), york edge, 10.81g/6h (DH 50e), in brass, edge grained, 10.21g/6h (DH 50g), edge plain, 10.66g/6h (DH 50k), 1796, lambe edge, 9.70g/6h (DH 52); Farthings (6), 1794, 4.59g/6h (DH 111), 1795 (3), edge grained, 4.55g/12h (DH 112), edge plain (2), in copper, 4.55g/6h, in brass, 4.50g/6h (both DH 112a), 1796, edge grained, 3.12g/6h (DH 113), 1797, edge grained, 2.98g/6h (DH 114) [14]. DH 112a in brass very fine and stained, others generally about extremely fine and better, a good and comprehensive group of all the main types for this issuer (£150-200)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of 18th Century Tokens formed by Dr David L Spence.

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Provenance:
Fawcett/Litman Collection, additionally:
DH 50 F.W. Lincoln Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 February 1936, lot 302 (part) [from Baldwin]
DH 112a brass from Baldwin
DH 113 and 114 SNC May 1912 (100661, 100662).

DH 50g only illustrated. Mary Lambe & Son, grocers and tea dealers, 36 Stall street (later merged with 1 Bath street in 1799); Mary was the widow of Lacon Lambe (†1775) and her youngest son, Markes Lambe, who was a numismatist and a presumed customer of Lutwyche, auctioned his collection of tokens and medals with the London house of Thomas King Jr on 27 December 1800 (Griffin, SCMB 1959, pp.214-15)