Auction Catalogue
Mining, Clifton Colliery, John Porter and John Nelson, a copper check, porter nelson dividing floral ornaments, rev. three-masted ship, 8.33g/7h (Finlay 135; D & W –). Fair to fine, extremely rare (£80-100)
Superior to the example illustrated by Finlay. Porter and Nelson took a lease from Henry Curwen IV of a colliery at Clifton for 9 years in 1726, at £80 per annum (Finlay, p.57)
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