Special Collections

Sold on 13 December 2006

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Tokens from the Collection formed by the late Barry Greenaway

Barry Greenaway

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№ 1061

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13 December 2006

Hammer Price:
£220

Bristol, [Elephant and Castle] Inn, John White, brass Three-Halfpence, elephant and castle, rev. value, countermarked shorto on rev. ep, 23mm, 4.47g/12h; M. Flower, brass, rev. bust of Queen Victoria left, eg, 23.5mm, 4.01g/12h; Forester’s Arms, William Pennington, brass Twopence, rev. value, ep, 26mm, 5.22g/6h, brass Threepence, rev. value in wreath, eg, 23.5mm, 3.72g/12h; Forester’s Music Hall, brass Threepence, value both sides, to be spent the same evening as received, etc, eg, 28mm, 7.20g/12h; Freemasons Hotel, I. Jefferis, brass Threepence, rev. value, eg, 25mm, 4.47g/12h; Full Moon Inn, Joseph Loveder, brass Threepence by T. Pope, rev. value, eg, 27mm, 6.03g/12h [7]. First fair, third good very fine, second, fifth and sixth very fine, others fine (£100-150)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Collection formed by the late Barry Greenaway.

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Provenance:
Fourth bt J.D. Hooper October 1993
Seventh from Habgood by exchange November 1987.

Third only illustrated. Elephant and Castle Inn, Merchant street, Broadmead, proprietor John White 1867; M. Flower, Redcliffe street; Forester’s Arms, Feeder road, St Philip’s Marsh; Forester’s Music Hall, Broadmead; Freemasons Hotel, Richmond road, Newtown, was auctioned in March 1881 and ‘consisted of bar, bar parlour, smoking room, bagatelle room, large club room where 4 societies meet, private sitting room, 2 bedrooms, kitchen, offices and capital cellarage’ at which time the proprietor was J. Jefferis; Full Moon Inn, Fishponds road