British Tokens

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen, Dr Adair’s Museum of Science & Anatomy, brass Sixpence, rev. open daily this and six pence will admit bearer, 25mm (Brodie 545; MG 851; ST 705); Canine Training Society, plated brass, by Fattorini, 25mm; King’s Works Canteen, brass Penny, 32mm (cf. Brodie 435); Marshall & Co, brass Sixpence, 29mm; (Brodie 436) Sealand, parking check, zinc, 25mm; Victoria Lodging House, brass, one free night, 36mm (Brodie 562; cf. Noble II, 749); C.F. Wilson & Co, aluminium, stamped 8, 26mm; Methlick, Methlick Institute, brass, un-named, 30mm (Brodie 438); Turriff, James Rankines, brass, 24mm (Brodie 438, this piece) [9]. Wilson mediocre, Rankines fine and pierced, Victoria Lodging virtually as struck, others about very fine and better, some rare
£100-150

Provenance: *First bt May 2006; second bt H. Simmons October 2009; third bt February 2011; fourth bt September 2006; fifth bt B. Hennem October 2007; *sixth bt H. Simmons April 2005; seventh bt J.G. Scott July 2007; eighth bt D. Stuart May 2010; last N.G. Brodie Collection, DNW Auction 55, 8 October 2002, lot 438 (part) [from M. Hood August 1998], DNW Auction T6, 19 March 2009, lot 566 (part)