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Bristol, Blue Bowl Inn, [Samuel] Wooles, brass Twopences (2, different dies), revs. foreign wines & spirits around value, small line under d, eg, 24mm, 4.63g/12h, large line under d, eg, 24mm, 5.87g/12h; Boar’s Head [College Place], J[ohn] Thayer, brass Twopence, boar’s head, rev. value, eg, 24mm, 4.21g/12h, G.F. Green, brass Threepence, rev. value, eg, 26mm, 4.46g/12h; Boar’s Head [Totterdown], W. Crew, brass Threepence by S.A. Daniell, rev. value, eg, 26mm, 5.31g/12h; Brass Knocker, brass Twopence by S.A. Daniell, rev. value, countermarked tg on obv., eg, 23.5mm, 4.35g/12h [6]. Generally about very fine (£90-120)

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:
Second bt in Weston-super-Mare February 1991
Third from Habgood by exchange November 1987
*Fourth bt L. Bennett October 1983
Fifth bt Cole January 1993
Sixth bt J.D. Hooper October 1993.

Blue Bowl Inn, Bath road, Totterdown, sold by auction on 23 August 1831 and described as 'desirable premises with pleasure ground, arbours, stables, skittle ground and other appurtenances, now in the occupation of Samuel Wooles at a yearly rent of £50’, he was still the proprietor in 1857. Boar’s Head, College place, proprietor John Thayer, during whose tenancy his wife Hester died on 13 January 1856 aged 59; Boar’s Head, St Luke’s road, Totterdown; Brass Knocker, Church street, Great Gardens