Auction Catalogue

6 October 2010

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books including the David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 272 x

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£250

Central London, Finsbury Square, James Lackington & Co, Halfpence, 1794 (6), j over e (4), edge grained, 8.51g/6h (DH 351), asylum edge, 8.20g/6h (DH 351a), birmingham edge, 7.91g/6h (DH 351b), london edge, 8.27g/7h (DH 351c), j over l (2), lackington edge, 11.00g/6h (DH 352), anglesey edge, 9.30g/6h (DH 352a); Lackington, Allen & Co, Halfpence (9), 1794 (5), 1 of date under coat button (3), temple edge, 9.01g/6h (DH 353), lancaster edge, 9.54g/6h (DH 353a), beccles edge, 11.29g/6h (DH 353c); 1 to right of coat button (2), temple edges, 9.42g/6h (DH 354), 8.28g/6h (DH 355); undated, london edge, 8.96g/6h (DH 356); 1795 (3), inner circle on rev., temple edge, 8.75g/6h (DH 357), no inner circle on rev. (2), edge grained right, 9.04g/6h (DH 358), edge grained left, 8.64g/6h (DH 358a); Lutwyche’s mule Halfpence (2), revs. Vulcan, 7.81g/6h (DH 359), arms of Liverpool, 6.79g/6h (DH 361) [17]. DH 358a extremely fine with considerable original colour, DH 353, 355 and 356 about extremely fine, others in varied state £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 351 and 358 bt M.Z. Gerson April 1978; DH 351a and 361 bt J.A. Bobbe October 1999; DH 351b and 351c bt S. Cordova June 1988; DH 352 bt M.Z. Gerson November 1981; DH 352a bt S. Cordova December 1995; DH 353 bt M.Z. Gerson June 1978; DH 353a bt A. Davisson July 1996; DH 353c bt B. Sailor August 1997; DH 354 bt M.Z. Gerson March 1978; DH 355 bt J.A. Bobbe October 1999; DH 356 M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 213 (part), bt R. Gladdle September 1986; DH 357 bt M.Z. Gerson September 1978; *DH 358a bt R. Gladdle March 1994; DH 359 bt S. Cordova