Auction Catalogue

22 April 2026

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes

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№ 552

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22 April 2026

Hammer Price:
£60

Waters, A.W., Notes on the Silver Tokens of the Nineteenth Century, London, 1957, x + 21pp (Manville 1040); Mathias, P., English Trade Tokens, the Industrial Revolution Illustrated, London, 1962, 64pp including 16 plates (Manville 1090); Harris, J.R., The Copper King, a Biography of Thomas Williams of Llanidan, Liverpool, 1964, xviii + 194pp, 1 plate (Manville 1112); Dalton, R., and Hamer, S.H., The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century [London, 1910-17], the 1967 Seaby reprint, 567pp, illustrations in text, dj (Manville 1147); Davis, W.J., The Nineteenth Century Token Coinage [London, 1904], the 1969 Seaby reprint, xlvii + 284pp, 15 plates (Manville 1189); Thompson, R.H., Jacobin Grotesques: the deliberate Muling of Dies in late Eighteenth-century England, Paris/Basle, 1976, 9pp, 2 plates; Kelly, E.M., Spanish Dollars and Silver Tokens, London, 1976, ii + 151pp, 8 plates, dj (Manville 1343); Schwer, S.E., Price Guide to 18th Century Tokens, Felixstowe, 1983, v + 182pp, illustrations in text (Manville 1507); Mays, J. O’D., Tokens of Those Trying Times, Ringwood, 1991, 248pp, illustrations in text (Manville 1700); Wager, A., The Mystery of Henry Morgan, Birmingham, 2007, 144pp, illustrations in text, signed by the author; Whetter, J., Francis Bassett/Lord de Dunstanville, Gorran, 2014, 76pp, 16 plates; together with printed copies of four original accounts of the total amounts of silver tokens issued by the Bank of England up to December 1812 [15]. Publishers’ bindings; mostly working copies, but the front of Davis with signatures of former work colleagues of Mac McCarthy £90-£120

Ex libris Mac McCarthy