British Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Wiltshire Coins and Paranumismatica

Paper Money, Cheques (9), viz. Wilts & Dorset Banking Co, Trowbridge, pay John Crockford Esq, Four Pounds 4 Shillings and Sixpence, 18 May 1853; The North Wilts Banking Co, Marlborough (3), pay Bal[an]ce of Miss Whitelock’s a/c being Twenty-Seven Pounds 19 Shillings and Twopence, 23 October 1866, pay Mr Lovell Five Pounds 15 Shillings and a Penny, 8 January 1867, signed by Joseph Merriman and pay Miss M, Seventy-One Pounds and 11 Shillings, 12 February 1868, signed by Joseph Merriman; Hampshire & North Wilts Banking Co, Marlborough, pay Mr W.H. Hillier Fourteen Pounds 16 Shillings, 7 August 1877, signed by R.W. Merriman; Wilts & Dorset Banking Co Ltd, Chippenham, pay Mr Henry Heath Seven Pounds, 1 August 1891, signed by Delmé Awdry, back endorsed by Henry Heath; Wilts & Dorset Banking Co Ltd, Devizes, pay Self, One Pound, 29 June 1905, signed by B.H. Lock, back endorsed by him; Salisbury Old Bank [John Pinckney & William Pinckney], pay Mr Ernest Usher Seventeen Shillings and Threepence, signed by Edward J.P. Smith, back endorsed by Ernest Usher; District Bank Ltd, Salisbury, pay Petty Cash, Sixteen Pounds, 18 May 1964 [9]. First with small pinhole otherwise extremely fine, other 19th century issues very fine, remainder in varied state £50-£70

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: Third bt March 2012; fourth and sixth bt May 2010; fifth bt February 2011; seventh bt July 2007; last bt December 2010.

Robert William Merriman, JP (1836-1924), scion of the banking firm of Ward, Brown, Merriman & Halcomb, Kingsbury street and Sempringham, Marlborough, Town Clerk, freemason, contributor to the Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Magazine.

Delmé Henry Seymour Awdry (1869-1956), Seend Manor, b. Argentina, son of Ambrose Awdry (1843-90) and Frances Grace Studdert