18th Century British Trade Tokens

Somerset, Bath, Kempson’s Buildings, Halfpence (18), revs. All Saints Chapel (2), edge plain, 13.78g/6h (DH 69; Young 1187), coventry token edge, 12.07g/6h (DH 69, edge unlisted; Young –); Cross Bath Pump Room, edge plain, 12.51g/12h (DH 72; Young 1187); Free Church (2), edge plain, 9.16g/6h (DH 73; Young 1189), coventry token edge, 13.33g/6h (DH 73a; Young –); Free School (2), edge plain, 13.03g/6h (DH 74; Young 1189), coventry token edge, 13.56g/6h (DH 74a; Young –); General Hospital, edge plain, in collar, 13.23g/12h (DH 75; Young 1189); Kensington Chapel, edge plain, 13.48g/6h (DH 76; Young 1189); New Pump Room Interior (2), edge plain, 12.82g/6h (DH 82; Young 1193), coventry token edge, 12.54g/6h (DH 82a; Young 1193); New Rooms Principal Entrance, edge plain, thick flan, 13.73g/6h (DH 83; Young 1193); Private Baths (2), edge plain, 13.24g/6h (DH 79; Young 1191), coventry token edge, 13.01g/6h (DH 79a; Young –); Pulteney Bridge, edge plain, 10.42g/6h (DH 80; Young 1192); St Mary’s Chapel (3), edges plain, 13.70g/6h (DH 77; Young 1190), 13.98g/6h (DH 78; Young 1191), coventry token edge, 12.97g/6h (DH 78a; Young –) [18]. DH 76 and 80 very fine, latter badly lacquered and scratched, others all extremely fine or better, several bronzed, some edges very rare, a good group £350-450

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

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Provenance: DH 69 and 82 bt M.Z. Gerson November 1981; DH *69 unlisted edge, 78a, 79a and 80 J.R. Farnell Collection, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet Auction (New York), 26 May 1982, lot 15 (part), W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 810 (part); DH 72 bt M.Z. Gerson August 1979; DH 73 bt M.Z. Gerson June 1978; DH 73a and 74a bt F. Seymour September 1994 [from R. Gladdle]; DH 74 O.P. Eklund Collection, J.A. Bobbe Collection, bt J.A.B. March 1987; DH 75 and 79 bt J.A. Bobbe September 1994; DH 76 bt M.Z. Gerson December 1981; DH 77 J.A. Bobbe Collection [acquired December 1979], bt J.A.B. January 1984; DH 78 J.A. Bobbe Collection [from J.D. King January 1981], bt J.A.B. October 1985; DH 82a D. Young Collection, Baldwin Auction 6, 11 October 1995, lot 1193 [from P.C. Deane December 1983], bt R. Gladdle November 1995; DH 83 bt R. Gladdle April 1988