Coins, Paper Money, Tokens and Historical Medals

Pye, C., [Provincial Copper Coins or Tokens, issued between the Years 1787 and 1796], Birmingham, nd [1795], 30 [of 36] engraved plates, no title pages (Manville 230); Kent, G.C., British Metallic Coins and Tradesmen’s Tokens With Their Value From 1600-1912, 1st edn, Chichester, 1912, xxvii + 353pp (Manville 724), several reviews and notices tipped-in; Glendining & Co [London], Catalogue of a…Collection of Tokens, the property of W. Pomfret Burra, Esq, 8 October 1919, 213 lots; Waters, A.W., Notes on Eighteenth Century Tokens, London, 1954, x + 53pp, 2 copies (Manville 1026); Waters, A.W., Notes on The Silver Tokens of the Nineteenth Century, London, 1957, x + 21pp (Manville 1040); together with other references, etc (15), by Dalton and Hamer, Bell, Acworth, etc, a small quantity of articles on tokens and a printed copy of the Treasury Minutes, 31 March and 22 April 1831, relating to the sending of silver coin from the Bank of England to the Royal Mint for melting into ingots [Lot]. Publishers’ bindings [weight 9 kg] £150-200

Provenance: Ex libris Ian Devereux, additionally: Kent ex libris C.A. Cuthbert Keeson, with his bookplate.

The copy of Kent in this lot includes a flyer for a ‘revised and illustrated Atkins’ London & Provincial Tokens Current in the 18th Century’, featuring ‘upwards of 6,500 illustrations’, to be published at 21s. Bearing a pencilled date of February 1921, the text makes it clear that this intended publication was meant as a riposte to the cost of the recently published work by Dalton and Hamer, the parts of which collectively cost £5 15s, and it is clear that a publication with values was intended. The publisher gave his address as ‘Branscombe’, Southbourne grove, Westcliff [on-Sea], Essex; some local research would uncover the name of the individual concerned