British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Berkeley, Boar’s Head Inn, copper Threepence by B. Durning, rev. value in wreath, eg, 23.5mm, 3.89g/12h (Hawkins p.218); The Swan, brass Threepence, bowling saloon, rev. value in wreath, eg, 26mm, 5.88g/12h; White Hart Hotel, Edmund Pickard, brass Threepence, value both sides, eg, 27mm, 5.74g/12h; White Lion Inn, T[homas] Pick, brass Threepence, rev. lion left, eg, 26mm, 5.28g/12h; T[homas] Pick, brass Threepence, rev. lion left, countermarked r [Charles Roberts] on rev., eg, 26mm, 5.07g/12h; T[homas] Pick, brass Threepence, rev. lion left, countermarked r and c [Charles Roberts and Henry Clutterbuck] on rev., eg, 26mm, 4.96g/12h; Berkeley, Tetbury and Malmesbury [Wiltshire], Pope’s Tea Warehouse, brass, rev. eight of these will buy an oz. of the best tea, etc, eg, 27mm, 5.63g/12h [7]. Second and third good fine, others very fine, fourth black-toned (£100-150)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Collection formed by the late Barry Greenaway.

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Provenance:
First from A. Cunningham by exchange January 1988
Second bt Format June 1991
Third and *fourth bt October 1973
Fifth bt Carpenter October 1988.

The Swan, High street; White Hart Hotel, proprietor Edmund Pickard 1887-8; White Lion Inn, proprietors Thomas H. Pick 1874-91, Herbert Pick 1892-9, Charles Roberts 1901, Henry Clutterbuck 1923