An unusual and unique Scrapbook, compiled by Jeffrey North, containing upwards of 150 newspaper cuttings, illustrations and engravings, etc., relating to coins and medals, mostly from the period 1934-6 but including some original cuttings from The Times, 1853, relating to decimal currency; also including the programme and original named invitation for Mr North to attend the International Congress of Numismatists, London, 1936, and many items relating to the Jubilee crowns of 1935 and the impending coinage of Edward VIII. In excellent order, extremely interesting (£50-100)

Provenance:
Ex libris Jeffrey North.

Mr North (b.1920), the author of English Hammered Coinage, compiled this scrapbook as a teenage schoolboy. Apart from The Times, original sources include The Morning Post, The Daily Mirror, Daily Express, The Sunday Express, The Star, The Evening News, The Evening Standard, The News of the World, News Chronicle, Brighton Evening Argus, Sunday Dispatch and The Illustrated London News.


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