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The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Wetton, J.L., The Hampshire Seventeenth Century Traders’ Tokens, Lymington, 1964, 37pp, 22 plates. Original cream card covers, a fine copy; annotated by Preston-Morley with some corrections and a detailed record of the tokens formerly in the Edward King collection (£20-30)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Library of Token Books.

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The late Edward King of Lymington, publisher of Wetton’s book, possessed a fine collection of Hampshire 17th century trade tokens. They were sold anonymously, en bloc, at Glendining’s, 14 February 1973, lot 214, and were bought by Spink on behalf of the Hampshire County Museum Service, Winchester