British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

London (City), The Postern [Moorfields], Rob. Mills, Farthing, 1.41g/7h (N 7478; BW. 2267); Poultry, T[homas] D[yott], Farthing, 0.96g/6h (N 7484; BW. 2273); Pudding Lane [Lower Thames Street], B[rian] A[ppleby], Farthing, 1657, 0.84g/9h (N 7487; BW. 2283), Thomas Farener, Halfpenny, 1668, 2.20g/12h (N 5034a, this piece; BW. Surrey 257), M.F. at the darke hovse, Farthings, 1651 (2), 1.00g/6h, 0.82g/6h (N 5035a, 5035b, these pieces; BW. Surrey 256), W.I.P. at the black bvll, Farthing, 0.89g/6h (N 7486; BW. 2285) [7]. N 7478 fair, N 7487 very fine, others about fine and better, N 5034 and 7486 with ‘river’ patina £180-£220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of London 17th Century Tokens Formed by the Late Cole Danehower.

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Provenance: N *5034 and 5035 at 0.82g Norweb Collection [from Baldwin]; N 5035 at 1.00g R.A. Nott Collection, Norweb Collection; N 7478 Baldwin Auction 52, 25 September 2007, lot 751 (part); N 7484 bt Baldwin; N 7486 found in the R. Thames, P.D. Greenall Collection, Baldwin Auction 16, 30 October 1997, lot 126 (part) [from R.A. Shuttlewood January 1983]; N 7487 found in the R. Thames at Billingsgate, bt Baldwin.

For the attribution of N 5034 and 5035 to Pudding Lane from Rotherhithe Lane, see Everson, p.92, and Thompson, ‘A token of the London baker whose oven sparked the Great Fire’, SNC 2005, pp. 315-16. By reputation, the Great Fire is believed to have started at Farener’s premises on 2 September 1666