British Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Wiltshire Coins and Paranumismatica

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Amesbury, H[ome] F[arm] M[odel] D[airies], celluloid 1 Pint Milk (4: red [2], white and yellow), Half-Pint Milk, all 25mm; Atworth, New Mendip Engineering Ltd, uniface brass, stamped 1690, 28mm; Avoncliff, Cross Guns Inn, S, brass, 21.5mm (Courtney p.169; Greenaway 1173, this piece) [7]. Last very fine, others fine to very fine £40-£50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Wiltshire Coins, Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by the late David Ward.

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Provenance: Last B.M. Greenaway Collection, DNW Auction T4, 13 December 2006, lot 1173 (part) [from A.H. Stevens July 1981], bt N.A. Clark August 2007.

Home Farm Model Dairies, Amesbury, established 3 June 1949, ceased trading 2006. New Mendip Engineering Ltd, proprietors George and Arthur Thatcher, formerly located in Bristol where they made the Mendip light car, moved to Atworth in the early 1920s and produced important components for the aircraft industry; the workforce peaked at 600 before the business was sold to Dowty Group in 1948. Cross Guns, Avoncliff, a 16th century pub on the canal towpath between Bath and Bradford-on-Avon