British 17th Century Trade Tokens

Irongate [St Katharine’s], John Rammage, Halfpenny, 1.68g/6h (N 8252; BW. 1547). Part flat, otherwise about fine, very rare £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The James Lamb Collection of 17th Century Tokens of the London Borough of Stepney.

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A Collection of Seventeenth Century Tokens, the property of a Gentleman, Part I, St James’s Auction 35, 9 February 2016, lot 350 (part); bt Q.D.R. Archer June 2019.

John Ramage (b 1646), a son of the moneyer David Ramage; he was apprenticed to a vintner in 1662, and is believed not to have had any connection with his father’s token manufacturing concern, which was continued by his elder brother David Ramage Jr after their father’s death in late 1661