TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS


TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS


The lot number sequence has been chosen to avoid conflict with Parts I and II of the Roehrs collection of cut and countermarked coins, sold in 2010 and 2011.


Antigua 1001


ST JOHN’S, Hornel & Coltart, Farthings (2), both 1836, palm-tree, revs. value in wreath, different dies, both 21.5mm, 4.28g/12h, 4.24g/12h (Lyall 1; Prid. 1; KM. Tn1) [2]. Fine and better


£20-30


Provenance: First bt R. Zander March 1965; second R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-14 June 1975, lot 7.


Hornel & Coltart apparently ceased trading before 1840 (Lyall, p.2) 1006


ABACO, The Bahamas-Cuban Co Ltd, aluminium One Dollar 20 Cents, legend, rev. value, 35mm, 3.28g/12h (Lyall –; Prid. –). Edge nicks and unofficially pierced, otherwise about very fine, extremely rare, perhaps the only known specimen


£400-500


Provenance: W. Tankersley Collection, Baldwin Auction 18, 12-13 October 1998, lot 177.


The company succeeded the Bahamas Timber Co in 1916 Bahamas


1002


ST JOHN’S, Hornel & Coltart, Proof Farthing, 1836, in copper, similar, edge plain, 21.5mm, 4.28g/12h (Lyall 2; Prid. 1A; KM. Tn1). Extremely fine and very rare £120-150


Provenance: Coin Galleries Mailbid Sale, 15 November 1989 (1208)


1003


ST JOHN’S, Hornel & Coltart, Farthings (3), all 1836, similar, obvs. countermarked 1, 3 and 4, perhaps as communion token substitutes, all 21.5mm, 4.15g/12h, 4.25g/12h, 4.10g/12h (Lyall 3, 4 this piece, 5) [3]. Generally fine, a scarce group


£80-100


Provenance: First bt I. Rudman 1977 [from T. Uhl]; others R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-14 June 1975, lots 5, 6


1007


ABACO, The Bahamas Timber Co, aluminium 6 Cents, c. 1910, 23mm, legend, rev. value, 1.04g/12h (Lyall 8, this piece illustrated; Prid. –). Obverse good fine, reverse stained, extremely rare; only two specimens known


£300-400


Provenance: R.J. Ford Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 79, 15 October 1990, lot 364.


Bahamas Timber Co, established 1906


1004


ST JOHN’S, Presbyterian Church, octagonal white metal communion token, 1842, legend both sides, 26 x 19mm, 4.90g/6h (Lyall 6; Burzinski 398; Noble III, 398, this piece). Tin pest in lower right corner of reverse, otherwise very fine and extremely rare


£200-250


Provenance: R.H. and Mrs E.M. Norweb Collection; W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Auction 64B (Melbourne), 11 July 2000, lot 398


Aruba 1005


East End Transportation Co, cupro-nickel check, EAST END TRANSPORTATION COMPANY around ONE FARE ARUBA N.W.I. on both sides, 16.5mm, 1.96g/12h; Victoria Bottling Co, cupro-nickel check, VBC ARUBA on patterned background, rev. GOOD FOR ONE DRINK, 20mm, 3.58g/12h [2]. About very fine


£20-30


Provenance: First F.J. Bingen Collection, bt P. Bosco; second Paul Cunningham Mailbid Sale, 13 March 1982 (1), bt K.V. Eckardt July 1982.


Victoria Bottling Co at one time held the licence to bottle Coca Cola on the island


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1008


CAT CAY, Cat Cay Club, uniface gold One Key, c. 1946, cat on key, back engraved with EWJ monogram, stamped 10K LGB (L.G. Balfour, Attleboro, Mass.), 38mm, 22.70g. A pocket piece; better than very fine, with loop and ring mount, unusual and presumably a one-off £250-350


Provenance: Bt Thompson & Strong 1996.


The initials are thought to be those of Erwin, Wasey & Jefferson, the original name of the advertising agency set up by Louis Rice Wasey (1884-1961) and Will Jefferson in Chicago in September 1914. Wasey moved to New York in 1924 and, with his wife Rae, purchased the island of Cat Cay in 1931 for approximately $400,000 from the widow of Milo Strong (†1931). Wasey and his business partner, O.B. Winters, spent about $1 million in the late 1930s creating a private club with a membership restricted to 100


1009


CAT CAY, Cat Cay Club, aluminium-bronze One Key, Half-a-Key (2), all c. 1946, cat on key, revs. water tower and value, 38 and 30mm, 21.89g/12h, 9.08g/12h, 8.87g/12h (Lyall 11, 15; Prid. 4, 5; Spink Tn6a) [3]. Good very fine


£50-70


Provenance: First R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-14 June 1975, lot 16; last bt F.S. Werner 1977


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