TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS


1102


Hamburg-Amerika Paketenfahrt AG, square copper bracteate Half-Cent, insignia over value, 40mm, 6.44g (Sømod 4673; Lyall 6; Lyall Sale 839). Very fine and extremely rare


£500-1,000 1099


Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, uniface oval zinc employee identification badge, stamped 128, 57 x 36mm, 6.77g (Lyall 2, this piece). Pierced as issued and surface oxidised, fine, the only recorded specimen


£200-300


Provenance: R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-14 June 1975, lot 1079


Provenance: Bt estate of M.M. Gould


1103


Hamburg-Amerika Paketenfahrt AG, square copper bracteate, no value, 41mm, 4.26g (Sømod 4674; Lyall –). Very fine, of the highest rarity


£500-1,000


Provenance: H.D. Gibbs Collection, Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 23 March 1970, lot 1169


1100


Hamburg-Amerika Paketenfahrt AG, tin bracteate 20 Cents, insignia over value, 39mm, 3.52g (Sømod 4671; Lyall 8, this piece). Extremely fine, of the highest rarity


£500-1,000 Provenance: O.P. Eklund Collection.


The Hamburg-Amerika steamship line, founded in 1847, based their local operations in St Thomas from 1873 but had ceased their coaling operations by 1916


1104


Det Østasiatiske Kompagni, rectangular zinc bracteate One Cent with bevelled corners, ØK over value, 50 x 46mm (Sømod 6446; Lyall –). Oxidised surface, fine to very fine, of the highest rarity; the only recorded specimen


£1,000-1,500 Provenance: Bt K.V. Eckardt [from J.D. King]. 1101


Hamburg-Amerika Paketenfahrt AG, rectangular copper bracteate One Cent, insignia over value, 56 x 36mm, 8.61g (Sømod 4672; Lyall 7; Lyall Sale 840). Fine, extremely rare


£500-1,000 Provenance: Bt estate of M.M. Gould Additional lot images may be found on our website www.dnw.co.uk


Det Østasiatiske Kompagni (referred to as Ø.K. or D.Ø.K.) was founded in Copenhagen in 1897. In 1902 the company worked with the Danish government to establish a steamship route between Copenhagen and St Thomas and subsequently a coaling depot was set up in St Thomas for the three company-owned ships. The token dates to c. 1904 and would have been in use until 1912 (information courtesy of Jørgen Sømod)


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