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

Bridgenorth, Skidmore’s Globe series, Penny, Dudmaston Hall, rev. globe, edge lettered, 23.54g/12h (DH Middlesex 133). Extremely fine and patinated (£90-120)

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:
Fawcett/Litman Collection.

Dudmaston Hall, 3 miles south-east of Bridgenorth, built in the late 17th century on land owned by the Wolryche-Whitmore family, was given to the National Trust in 1978. Among its most famous residents were the mathematician and ‘father of computing’ Charles Babbage (1791-1871), who married Georgiana Wolryche-Whitmore in 1814, and Rachel, Lady Labouchere (1908-96), a direct descendant of the Coalbrookdale industrialist Abraham Darby