18th Century British Trade Tokens

Suffolk, Beccles, issuer uncertain, Lutwyche’s Halfpenny, 1795, 10.92g/6h (DH 16); Bungay, Samuel Prentice, Halfpenny, 1794, 10.28g/6h (DH 22), Samuel Prentice, Samuel Delf and Mathias Abel Sr, Halfpenny, 1795, 8.76g/6h (DH 21); Bury St Edmunds, James Goer, Halfpenny, 9.94g/6h (DH 27); Hoxne and Hartsmere, Thomas Tallant, Penny, 1795, 21.51g/6h (DH 6a); together with other 18th century tokens of Suffolk (20) [25]. Those described very fine and better, DH 6a with original colour but striking fault on reverse, others in varied state £80-100

Provenance: *DH 6a bt Baldwin September 1992; DH 16 A Collection of 18th Century Tokens, Glendining Auction, 28 June 1989, lot 502 (part); DH 21 A.W. Jan Collection, Glendining Auction, 19 July 1965, lot 395 (part); DH 27 Spink Auction 28, 28 April 1983, lot 345 (part)