Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Gilbert Shearer & Co, imitation Halfpence, 1791 (13), no signature (6), cambridge edge, 9.98g/6h (DH 3a), edinburgh edge, 9.13g/12h (DH 3), london edges (2), 7.54g/12h (DH 3b), 9.00g/6h (DH 3c), edge grained, 10.57g/6h (DH 3d), edge plain, 9.19g/12h (DH 3e); with fa signature (3), lancaster edge, 9.20g/6h (DH 4), edges plain (2), 10.79g/6h (DH 4f, large flan), 9.15g/6h (DH 4f, small flan); ornament under date (4), lancaster edges (2), 11.33g/6h (DH 5), 9.92g/6h (DH 5c), sharps edge, 9.46g/6h (DH 5a), edge plain, 11.65g/6h (DH 5b) [13]. DH 3 and 4f extremely fine with original colour, others generally about very fine or better but DH 5b lacquered, DH 5a and 5c very rare £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection.

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Provenance: DH 3 bt A. Davisson November 1995; DH 3a bt M.Z. Gerson April 1979; DH 3b and 5 bt P. Flanagan March 1981; DH 3c bt R. Gladdle May 1994; DH 3d, 3e and 5a A. Hannah Collection, CNG Auction 30 (New York), 11 June 1994, lot 640 (part) [from Corbitt & Hunter August 1964], Davissons Mailbid Sale 5, 25 July 1995 (425, 426, 427); DH 4 bt T. Madigan February 1993; *DH 4f large J.A. Bobbe Collection [from Stanley Gibbons September 1980], bt J.A.B. December 1984; DH 4f small bt S. Cordova May 1995; DH 5b J.R. Farnell Sr Collection, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet Auction (New York), 26 May 1982, lot 84 (part), bt F. Seymour September 1994; DH 5c bt J.A. Bobbe June 1996