THE LATE ROBINSON S. BROWN JR COLLECTION (Part II - Middlesex)
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City Road, Thomas Hall, Lutwyche’s Pennies, 1795 (6), obvs. quadrupeds, LUTWYCHE edge, 16.19g/3h (DH 25); deformed dwarf (2), LUTWYCHE edge, 17.27g/6h (DH 26), WE PROMISE edge, 19.66g/12h (DH 26a); negress (3), LUTWYCHE edge, 17.40g/6h (DH 27), WE PROMISE edge, 19.92g/12h (DH 28); edge plain, 20.84g/6h (DH 28a) [6]. DH 26 about very fine, others good very fine and better but DH 26a heavily surface-marked and DH 28 with planchet cutter line both sides
£120-150
Provenance: DH 25 bt W. Anderson January 1996; DH 26 bt M.Z. Gerson February 1980; DH 26a W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty, Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 281 (part) [from P. Flanagan June 1983]; DH 27 W. Waite- Sanderson Collection, Glendining Auction, 16-17 November 1944, lot 70 (part), bt R. Gladdle April 1988; DH 28 bt J.A. Bobbe June 2002; *DH 28a W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty, Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 284 [from Baldwin 1978]
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Cornhill, Richardson, Goodluck & Co, Halfpence, 1795 (5), Figure of Fortune type (4), large rev. letters, edge plain, 10.92g/6h (DH 467; Stainton 37), HEARTS OF HIS PEOPLE edge, 10.79g/6h (DH 467a), smaller rev. letters, edge plain, 11.23g/6h (DH 468), large date, 9.54g/12h (DH 469); Bluecoat boy type, 10.52g/6h (DH 471; Stainton 38); Covent Garden, Thomas Dodd, Halfpenny, 12.68g/6h (DH 300, thick flan); Coventry Street, J. Henderson, Halfpence, 1795 (2), small period after LONDON, 9.08g/6h (DH 292), large period, 9.28g/6h (DH 293); Drury Lane, John Kilvington, Halfpence, 1795 (2), laurel to J, edge engrailed, 9.37g/6h (DH 346), laurel to T, edge engrailed, 8.73g/6h (DH 347); mule Halfpence (6), all BRUNSWICK type, revs. Britannia (2), DUBLIN edge, 9.12g/6h (DH 348), edge plain, 6.57g/6h (DH 348a), ship (2), edge engrailed, 9.55g/6h (DH 349), edge plain, 7.15g/6h (DH 349c), arms of Lancaster (2), NORTHIAM edge, 9.93g/7h (DH 350), edge plain, 6.09g/7h (DH 350a) [16]. DH 300, 348a, 349, 349c and 350a fine, DH 467 extremely fine and patinated, DH 350, 469 and 471 very fine, others about extremely fine, DH 467a very rare
£140-180 267
City Road, Thomas Hall, Halfpenny, small toucan standing left, head turned back, rev. THE 1ST ARTIST IN EUROPE, etc, edge PAYABLE AT LONDON, 9.13g/12h (DH 318). Usual flaw through OBSERVERS, extremely fine with attractive glossy surfaces, extremely rare, very few specimens known
£400-600 Provenance: Bt J. Spingarn May 1997.
This well-known rarity was absent from most of the important token auctions of the recent past, including Longman and Noble; the last specimen to change hands at auction was David Spence’s (lot 1396, £650)
Provenance: DH 292 bt J.A. Bobbe March 1997; DH 293 bt R. Gladdle April 1988; DH 300 bt P. Flanagan March 1981; DH 346 bt F. Seymour September 1994; DH 347 bt M.Z. Gerson June 1978; DH 348 bt M.Z. Gerson March 1982; DH 348a bt M.Z. Gerson March 1981; DH 349 bt S. Cordova August 1989; DH 349c bt P. Flanagan July 1983; DH 350 M.Z. Gerson Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 53, 19 June 1986, lot 213 (part), bt R. Gladdle September 1986; DH 350a bt S. Cordova February 1988; DH 467 bt J.A. Bobbe June 2001; *DH 467a W.J. Noble Collection, Part I, Noble Numismatics Pty, Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 517 (part) [acquired 1997], SNC November 1998 (7100), bt J. Spingarn November 1998; DH 468 bt M.Z. Gerson January 1981; DH 469 bt A. Davisson July 1996; DH 471 bt M.Z. Gerson September 1978
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Covent Garden, Charles Presbury & Co, Halfpenny, bust of Elizabeth I in high ruff almost facing, rev. legend, edge PAYABLE IN LONDON, 10.16g/6h (DH 464). Usual die flaws and traces of alterations in the reverse die, otherwise extremely fine with original colour and attractive reflective surfaces, very rare
£150-200 Provenance: Bt J.A. Bobbe February 1996. 268
Clerkenwell, Thomas Gorton, Skidmore’s Penny, 1797, fender and fire-irons, rev. TG cypher, 26.15g/6h (DH 16). Usual rim flaws, extremely fine, a hint of original colour £80-100
Provenance: Davissons Mailbid Sale 3, 3 May 1994 (282)
This token utilises the obv. die initially employed for the Chichester halfpence of Dally & Son (DH Sussex 15-17), combined with a rev. die which traditionally has been associated with John Stubbs Jorden and was perhaps produced c. 1797-8 (Dykes, BNJ 2001, pp.132-3). The order was countermanded by Presbury after about 36 pieces had been struck
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