Auction Catalogue

13 December 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1253

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13 December 2006

Hammer Price:
£160

18th Century, Dorset, Sherborne, Pretor, Pew, Whitty & Pretor, Westwood’s Halfpenny, 1793, 10.80g/6h (DH 7); Gloucestershire, Badminton, David Arnot and John Jelly, Halfpenny, 1795, 9.27g/6h (DH 22a), Gloucester, Kempson’s City Penny, 1797, rev. New County Gaol, 16.21g/6h (DH 10), Newent, John Morse, Halfpenny, 1796, 11.65g/12h (DH 64); Somerset, Bath, Francis Heath, Halfpenny, 1795, 9.94g/6h (DH 40), Mary Lambe & Son, Farthing, 1795, 4.49g/6h (DH 112a); together with other tokens (15), of Cornwall, Devon (2), Dorset (2), Gloucestershire, Somerset (9) [21]. First six very fine or better but Newent lacquered, others generally fine (£70-100)

Provenance:
Second and fourth bt A. Davisson