Auction Catalogue

11 July 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

№ 2249

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11 July 2006

Hammer Price:
£270

King Jr, T. (London), Catalogue of Provincial & Other Coins [Thomas Welch Collection], 17-19 September 1801, 252 lots, annotated with prices and buyers’ names; bound with an annotated broadsheet List of the Cabinets who have in their Possession The Penny Token issued by me, Robert Orchard…Engraved by Mr Milton, 1803; bound with engravings of Sir George Chetwynd’s coat of arms and his 1842 private token, a wants list of desiderata for Sir George Chetwynd, a letter (?partially) from Chetwynd to a Mr Broomhead of Birmingham who offered him the Coventry issuer Edmund Percy’s collection of provincial coins and tokens in June 1846, containing a sketchy list of the contents, and a letter from John Akerman to John Gough Nichols, dated 2 July 1834. Modern buff cloth; an interesting volume (£70-90)