The Collection of 18th Century Tokens formed by Dr David L Spence

Essex, Chelmsford, Clachar & Co, Halfpence, 1794 (2), clachar edge, 10.27g/6h (DH 5; Judson 1039), hull edge, 11.31g/12h (DH 5b; Judson 1039); mule Halfpence by Kempson (3), revs. figure of Hope, success, etc, london edge, 9.43g/6h (DH 6; Judson 1039), figure of Hope, prosperity, etc, edge grained, 10.83g/6h (DH 7; Judson 1039), dove, current every where edge, 9.78g/12h (DH 8a; Judson 1039); Colchester, Charles Heath, Halfpence, 1794 (3), view of castle without foliage, 10.00g/6h (DH 9; Judson 1040), castle with foliage (2), heaths edge, 10.38g/6h (DH 10; Judson 1040), richard bacon edge, 10.83g/6h (DH 10a; Judson 1040) [8]. DH 9 fair, others generally good very fine and better, DH 6 lacquered, DH 5b and 10 with traces of original colour (£40-60)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of 18th Century Tokens formed by Dr David L Spence.

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Provenance:
All Fawcett/Litman Collection.

William Clachar (†15 April 1813, aged 80), bookseller, printer and auctioneer, agent for the Sun Fire Office, who in 1786 took over the circulating library established in the town by Charles Frost in 1771. Clachar bought the Chelmsford Chronicle in April 1771 and retired from business in the summer of 1799 (Longman, pp.21-4); Charles Heath, baymaker