British and Scottish Coins, Numismatic Books

Ogg, H.A., Thomas Thomas, a proof engraving of the numismatist half-length, seated, holding a coin in his right hand, printed by A. Archer, 13.5 x 21cm, set in a modern black-edged frame with gilt borders, the whole 29 x 38cm. In excellent condition, with brass means of suspension on the back £60-80

Thomas Thomas († c. 1843), grocer and tea dealer of Oxford street, London, formed a vast collection of all types of coins that was sold by Sotheby’s in three auctions, occupying a total of 34 days, in 1844. Henry Alexander Ogg was a noted portrait and landscape painter and copperplate engraver in the late 1830s