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

Ipswich, James Conder, Halfpenny, 1794, edge grained, 10.31g/12h (DH 35; Judson 1079); Robert Manning, Halfpenny, mannings edge, 9.94g/6h (DH 34; Judson 1079); Lowestoft, Robert Peach, Halfpenny, 1795, edge grained, 9.74g/6h (DH 37; Judson 1079); Woodbridge, Robert Loder, Penny, 1796, loder edge, 23.14g/6h (DH 15; Judson 1082) [4]. DH 34 good very fine but lacquered, others about extremely fine and better, last two with original colour (£60-80)

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, additionally:
DH 34, 35 and 37 W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lot 259 (part) [34 from J.H. Daniels May 1912, 35 from Spink May 1912, *37 from W.C. Weight March 1914].

Robert Manning, surveyor of windows. Robert Peach, master mariner (Brooke, CTCJ December 1998, pp.24-7). Robert Loder (†1811), printer, bookseller and stationer, author of Statutes and Ordinances of Sekford’s Almshouses. Thomas Sekford (1516-88), of Sekford Hall, built the sessions house at Woodbridge and funded a series of maps of the counties of England and Wales, published in the 1570s (Longman, pp.65-6). Lutwyche’s dies survived with the Loder family and the issuer’s grandson had six impressions in silver struck c. 1880. One example and the defaced dies were presented to the British Museum; for the distribution of the others see Waters, 1954, p.26