18th Century British Trade Tokens

Warwickshire, Birmingham, Kempson’s Halfpence, 1793 (5), current every where edge, 10.46g/6h (DH 50), clougher edge, 8.94g/6h (DH 50a), london and engrailed edge, 7.36g/6h (DH 50c), bristol edge, 9.84g/12h (DH 50d), edge grained, 10.16g/6h (DH 50g); mule Halfpence (11), boy with press (6), revs. bust of Samuel Johnson, london and engrailed edge, 8.58g/6h (DH 51), ship, london and engrailed edge, 7.30g/6h (DH 52), Britannia seated, edge grained, 9.51g/6h (DH 53), standing female, london edge, 9.68g/6h (DH 54), three men hanging, edge engrailed, 11.19g/6h (DH 55), a way to prevent knaves, etc, edge engrailed, 11.27g/6h (DH 56), shield (5), revs. Britannia seated, london and engrailed edge, 7.92g/6h (DH 58), ship (2), current every where edge, 9.45g/6h (DH 59), edge plain, 8.05g/6h (DH 59a), mounted dragoon (2), one cent edge, 9.93g/6h (DH 60c), london and engrailed edge, 9.45g/6h (DH 61) [16]. DH 50, 55 and 61 extremely fine with original colour, DH 50a, 50d, 56, 58 and 60c very fine or better, 50d very rare, others generally fine but some lacquered, DH 50g also very rare £200-250

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

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Provenance: DH 50 bt M.Z. Gerson April 1978; DH 50a bt M.Z. Gerson July 1979; DH 50c bt P. Flanagan April 1980; DH 50d T.A. Jan Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 35, 11 April 1984, lot 101 (part), bt R. Gladdle April 1988; DH 50g bt P. Flanagan June 1997; DH 51 bt M.Z. Gerson November 1980; DH 52 bt J. Spingarn November 1997; DH 53 bt M.Z. Gerson January 1982; DH 54 bt J. Spingarn March 1998; *DH 55 bt J.A. Bobbe June 1996; DH 56 J.A. Bobbe Collection [from Stanley Gibbons May 1981], bt J.A.B. July 1984; DH 58 bt J.A. Bobbe August 1997; DH 59 bt M.Z. Gerson March 1982; DH 59a bt M.Z. Gerson April 1979; DH 60c bt W. Noyes April 1985; DH 61 J.A. Bobbe Collection [from J.D. King January 1981], bt J.A.B. July 1994