18th Century Tokens, Hertfordshire, Bishop’s Stortford, Sir George Jackson, Halfpence, 1795 (2), arms, rev. barges on the River Stort, stop after date, bishops stortford edge, 10.09g/6h (DH 4), no stop after date, edge plain, 10.73g/6h (DH 4bis IIa) [2]. First extremely fine, second nearly so, scarce (£40-60)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of British Tokens formed by Eileen Judson.

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Provenance:
DH 4bis IIa SNC October 1969 (8249).

DH 4 illustrated. Sir George Jackson, Bt, later known as Sir George Duckett, Bt (1725-1822), secretary to the Navy board, 1758; second secretary to the Admiralty, 1766-82; MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, 1762-8 and Colchester, 1790-6; friend and associate of Capt Cook, who named Port Jackson, in New South Wales, and Point Jackson, New Zealand, after him. The tokens were actually made in 1796, and delivered to Jackson by Matthew Boulton in May and June of that year (Doty, CTCJ December 1999, pp.9-13)