TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS 1010
CAT CAY, Cat Cay Club, piédfort lead One Key, bronze Half-a-Key (2, second with re-engraved banana tree in front of house), all c. 1946, similar, 38 and 30mm, 29.46g/12h, 10.41g/12h, 8.96g/12h (Lyall 14, 15; Prid. 5; Spink Tn6) [3]. First very fine but with surface tin pest, others better
£40-50
Provenance: First bt 1974; second R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-14 June 1975, lot 17; third bt K. V. Eckardt 1984
1017
NASSAU, The British Colonial Hotel, brass checks (2), c. 1935, palm-tree, revs. crown above panel, one with serial number 1 stamped on panel, both 32mm, 11.10g/6h, 10.79g/6h (Lyall 10; Spink Tn3); together with coloured metal badges of the Bahamas (2), one designed by a pair of schoolgirls [4]. Very fine
£30-40 1011
CAT CAY, Cat Cay Club, bronze Quarter-Key, c. 1946, similar, 24mm, 5.01g/12h (Lyall 21; Prid. 6; Spink Tn5). Very fine, rare
£60-80 Provenance: Bt K.V. Eckardt 1984 1012
CAT CAY, Cat Cay Club, restrike silver One Key, Half-a- Key and Quarter-Key, all c. 1967, similar, 38, 30 and 24mm, 28.35g/12h, 15.50g/12h, 7.80g/12h (Lyall 13 var, 17 var, 20 var; Spink Tn5b, 6c, 7a) [3]. Unworn but surfaces oxidised, particularly the reverses, very rare; believed 3 sets known
£80-100 1013
CAT CAY, Cat Cay Club, restrike silver-gilt One Key, Half-a-Key and Quarter-Key, all c. 1967, similar, 38, 30 and 24mm, 25.70g/12h, 14.41g/12h, 6.82g/12h (Lyall 12 var, 16 var, 19 var) [3]. Extremely fine
£80-100 1014
CAT CAY, Cat Cay Club, restrike silver-plated One Key, Half-a-Key (2, second with brilliant fields), all c. 1967, similar, 38 and 30mm, 20.53g/12h, 9.23g/12h, 9.01g/12h (Lyall 13, 17, –; Prid. 4, 5) [3]. Some spotting on rims, otherwise extremely fine
£50-70
Provenance: Last ‘Bostonian Collection’, Bank Leu Auction 51 (Zurich), 24-6 October 1990, lot 757 (part); others bt R. Zander 1967
1018
NASSAU, Dirty Dick’s, octagonal brass check, c. 1920, legend over cornucopiæ, rev. legend around sun, 36mm, 14.43g/6h (Lyall 30; Spink Tn8). Spot of verdigris on lower obverse and many associated surface marks, otherwise very fine
£50-70
Provenance: R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-14 June 1975, lot 25.
Dirty Dick’s, a hotel bar on Bay street in the 1920s and 1930s
Second only illustrated. The British Colonial Hotel, formerly the New Colonial Hotel which had opened in 1923, was acquired in 1934 by Sir Harry Oakes (1874-1943), a Canadian multimillionaire, who renamed the business. Oakes, a naturalised Canadian who had discovered his own gold mine at Kirkland Lake, was murdered in a bizarre ritual at Westbourne, his house overlooking the ocean near Nassau, in July 1943, the day before he was due to meet the Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII), governor of the Bahamas, for a round of golf. He left a fortune estimated at $300 million
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CLARENCE TOWN, Edwin Rahming, brass check, c. 1880, name, rev. LONG ISLAND, 22.5mm, 3.77g/9h (Lyall 54). Somewhat dirty, otherwise very fine and extremely rare £200-250
Provenance: Bt I. Rudman 2001 [from A. Weinberg].
Edwin Rahming (†1925), salt raker, dry goods merchant, bar and plantation owner
Barbados 1016
CLARENCE TOWN, Edwin Rahming, brass check, similar, 15mm, 1.30g/6h (Lyall –; Rulau 29). Good very fine, extremely rare
£250-300 Provenance: Bt C. Plante November 2000 Additional lot images may be found on our website
Edward Roehrs formed his most extensive collection of pineapple pennies over very many years, having had a significant interest in the varieties of the series. Not only were later strikes made for collectors but it would seem that, having seen the success of Sir Philip Gibbes’ original 1788 issue, another local (or locals) ordered copies. One is known to have cancelled his order in 1791 when the island was suddenly flooded with a competitor’s products! Sadly efforts to see if there were any reports about these issues in contemporary papers have been hampered by incomplete sequences of newspapers in the local library. The documentation is a research project awaiting attention; in the meantime the regular issue 1788-dated coins (those of Milton and Hancock) have been the subject of a recent die study by Gary Trudgen, posted on the internet in September 2009.
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