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Sold between 11 July & 7 October 2004

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

David L Spence

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№ 1823

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29 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£160

Hagley, Spence’s Halfpenny, man angling on river-bank, fishing-box under trees at left, rev. snail on river-bank, tree and bridge in background, edge plain, 10.34g/6h (DH 21). Very fine and patinated, rare £100-150)

Provenance:
Fawcett/Litman Collection [from Baldwin].

Hagley Hall and Park, largely the creation of George, 1st Lord Lyttelton (1709-73), secretary to Frederick, Prince of Wales. The Park, landscaped in the 1740s and 1750s, featured the very latest in arboricultural thinking, which captured the minds of the likes of Horace Walpole and the Scottish poet James Thomson (1700-48), who wrote “I am most charmed…particularly with a winding dale…enlivened by a stream that now gushing from mossy rocks, now falling in cascades, and now spreading into a calm length of water, forms the most natural and pleasing scene imaginable”