Lot Archive

Lot

№ 599

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19 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£25

Clubs and Societies, Berkshire, Wantage, Wantage Friendly Society, copper, legend, rev. bee-hive and bees, 29mm, 8.86g/12h (D & W 196/750; MG 1147). Very fine £20-30

Provenance: J.L. Wetton Collection, D.C. Pottinger Collection [from M. Dickinson September 1991).

Wantage Friendly Society, established 6 April 1808 and known locally as the Beehive Club, met at The Bear; the Society became extinct
c. 1860