Auction Catalogue

8 October 2024

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes

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Lot

№ 450

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8 October 2024

Hammer Price:
£240

17th Century Tokens, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, Cambridge, Ed Clark, Farthing, 1652, 1.06g/6h (N 376, this piece; BW. 29), John Craske, Halfpenny, 1667, 1.38g/12h (N 380; BW. 35), Wisbech, John Bellamy, Halfpenny, 1667, 1.00g/12h (N 492, this piece; BW. 202); SUFFOLK, Ipswich, William Doggett, square Halfpenny, 1668, 1.82g/12h (N 4367; BW. 174), Lowestoft, Corporation Farthings (2), 1669, naming Robert Barker and Joseph Smithson, 2.03g/6h (N 4401; BW. 225), undated, 2.97g/12h (N 4402; BW. 224) [6]. N 376 and 4367 fine, others in varied state £100-£150

N 376 and 492 R.A. Nott Collection, Norweb Collection, SNC December 1988 (7987), July-August 1989 (4167).

The cataloguer surmises that it is likely the specimens of N 4367 and 4401 in this lot were also formerly in the Nott and Norweb collections (4367b and 4401c), but in the absence of images taken at the time and any surviving Norweb envelopes, nothing can be proven