Irish Tokens from the Collection of the late Barry Woodside

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, Workshops for the Blind, Dining Room, brass Halfpence (13, varieties), all 26mm (Woodside AN B78, 78A) [13]. Generally about very fine £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Irish Tokens from the Collection of the late Barry Woodside.

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Provenance: Bt 2017.

The dining room in the Workshops for the Blind became known as the ‘Romper Room’, used by loyalist extremists in the early 1970s to torture and execute their captives and a perverse reference to a programme on Ulster TV at the time