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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№ 560 x

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£880

Political and Social series: Medals, Anti-Slavery Society, c. 1790, white metal medals (4), all from unsigned dies, chained slave kneeling right, rev. whatsoever ye would, etc, no stop after man, 32mm, 9.05g/5h (DH 234 bis; BHM 269), 33mm (3), 11.61g/12h (DH 235 bis I; BHM 269), 12.08g/12h (DH 237; BHM 269), 9.94g/12h (DH 238; BHM 269) [4]. First fair and with tin pest, others about very fine and better £150-200

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

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Provenance: DH 234 bis bt J.A. Bobbe April 2005; *DH 235 bis I The Property of a Gentleman, Spink Auction 96, 31 March 1993, lot 325 (part), W. Anderson Collection, Davissons Mailbid Sale 13, 25 April 2000 (610), recté 235 bis I; DH 237 bt F. Seymour September 1994; DH 238 W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty, Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 397 (part) [from R. Gladdle 1985]