British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books including the David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Imitation Spade Guineas, London, Bishopsgate, J. Blythe 6760; Coventry Street, Serjeant’s 9090; Grays Inn Road, Millie Edwards and ‘General Mite’ (3), 7080, 7090, 7100; Leadenhall Street, Play…International Games [H.P. Gibson & Sons Ltd] (5), 8650, 8660, 8670, 8680, 8690; New Bond Street, Miss E. Thompson [Lady Butler], 9200; Oxford Street, Parkins & Gotto (2), both 8490, Princess’s Theatre (2), H.J. Byron 6840, Dick Seymour 9100; Wood Street, Clements, Newling & Co 6950 [16]. Generally very fine, a few better, 7080, 7090, 7100, 9090 and 9200 pierced
£80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Advertising Checks from the David Magnay Collection.

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J. Blythe, restaurateur, Camomile street; Serjeant’s, tea dealers, 1 Coventry street; Millie Edwards and ‘General Mite’, whose real name was Francis Joseph Flynn (1864-98), were dwarfs whose marriage in London in 1884 was widely publicised by their agent, James Willing, 366 Grays Inn road; H.P. Gibson & Sons Ltd, est. 1903 as the International Card Co, manufacturers of indoor games, had moved to Aldersgate street by 1929 but the company’s premises were destroyed by the blitz in 1940; Lady Elizabeth Butler, née Thompson (1846-1933), painter of military pictures, exhibitor at the Royal Academy and the Fine Art Society, for which display the ISGs were issued in 1877; Parkins & Gotto, stationery manufacturers and wholesalers; H.J. Byron, theatrical producer; Dick Seymour, lead actor and manager of the production The Silver King, a play by H.A. Jones