Auction Catalogue

15 December 2005

Starting at 9:30 AM

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Tickets and Passes, Important British Trade Tokens, Coin Weights

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

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Lot

№ 2130

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15 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£240

Birmingham, 50th Birthday of Joseph Priestley, 1783, medals by J.G. Hancock (2), bust right, revs. scientific apparatus on a bench, chimney with smoke at right, both 36mm, in copper, 15.24g/12h, in white metal, 16.47g/12h (both DH 33; BHM 251; E 807) [2]. First good very fine and patinated, second about very fine with some surface blistering, both scarce (£180-220)

Provenance:
Both D.L. Spence Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 67A, 29 September 2005, lot 1777, additionally:
*First bt R. Gladdle
Second Fawcett/Litman Collection