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Sold on 6 October 2010

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Advertising Checks from the David Magnay Collection

David Magnay

Lot

№ 692

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£10

Imitation Spade Guineas, Sussex, Brighton, Willing’s [James Willing] (2), both 9340, one a copy cast in silver c. 1970 [2]. First better than very fine but with fingermark on obverse, second fine £30-50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Advertising Checks from the David Magnay Collection.

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James Willing, a local advertising contractor, commissioned a clock tower which was presented to the the town of Brighton in January 1888. The silver copy is said to be one of five produced by an experimental centrifugal casting method in 1970 (Neilson, p.61)