TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS


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ST DOROTHY, Kelly’s Estate, Marquis of Sligo, white metal Sixpence, similar, 30.5mm, 10.01g/6h (Lyall 160; Prid. 148 [Sale, lot 130]; D &W338/48). Central hole pierced, trifling rim nicks and surface marks, otherwise obverse about extremely fine, reverse very fine, extremely rare


£600-800 Provenance: Bt Spink 1976 1235


KINGSTON, Scottish Church, uniface octagonal white metal, S.C. TOKEN, 19mm, 2.76g (Lyall 206; Burzinkski 6213). Some flan delamination, otherwise about very fine, rare £100-150


Provenance: Lorna Cattanach Collection; A.T. Macmillan Collection, Simmons Galleries Mailbid Sale, 2 October 2007 (80) [from L.C. February 2002]


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ST DOROTHY, Kelly’s Estate, Marquis of Sligo, white metal Threepence, similar, 28mm, 6.90g/6h (Lyall 161; Prid. 149 [Sale, lot 131, this piece]; D & W 338/49; Ford 616). Central hole, good very fine and very rare


£600-800


Provenance: Glendining Auction, 30 April-1 May 1906, lot 243 (part); F.S. Cokayne Collection; F. Pridmore Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 21-2 September 1981, lot 131 [from Baldwin]


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NEW BROUGHTON, Broughton Place Church, octagonal white metal, 1845, legend around JP monogram, rev. REVD. A.G. HOGG above date, 26 x 21mm, 7.63g/12h (Lyall 167; Burzinski 1036; Tankersley 316 [= Noble III, 400 = Climpson 1931]). Good fine, very rare


£150-200 1232


Uncertain location, V.F.D. and R.B.B., uniface brass Three-Halfpence, value cancelled with central hole of the Standard Fruit Co, 20mm, 2.25g (Lyall 149; Prid. –; Ford 612, this piece). Central hole, tarnished, otherwise very fine and very rare


£80-100


Provenance: R.J. Ford Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 79, 15 October 1990, lot 612.


The initials R.B.B. may be those of R.B. Braham, provision merchant, 37 Port Royal street, Kingston


Communion Tokens 1237


Uncertain location, Mount Zion Chapel, oval white metal, 1838, legend both sides, 43 x 25mm, 11.28g/12h (Lyall 200; Burzinski 5001). Very fine and of the highest rarity


£400-500 1233


CARRON HALL, Carron Hall Church, octagonal white metal, 1836, legend, rev. REVD. JNO. COWAN above date, 26 x 21mm, 6.96g/12h (Lyall 178; Burzinski 1315). About very fine, extremely rare


£250-350


Provenance: A.T. Macmillan Collection, Simmons Galleries Mailbid Sale, 2 October 2007 (76).


Revd. John Cowan (1806-78), from New Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland, was ordained in October 1831 and emigrated to Jamaica with his new bride, Margaret Marshall, at the end of that year, when the island was under a state of martial law. He arrived at Petersfield (the old name for Carron Hall) in February 1832, founding a mission and establishing the church in 1834. Cowan and his family returned to Scotland in 1854, retiring to the United Presbyterian Manse at Stow. His only son, Sir John Cowan (1844 -1929) was ADC to Kitchener and Roberts in the Boer War


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Uncertain location, Scottish Missionary Society, oval white metal, initials, rev. legend, 29 x 24mm, 7.37g/12h (Lyall 207; Burzinski 6333). Traces of lacquer, otherwise good fine, extremely rare


£200-250 Provenance: Bt C. Plante 1991 www.dnw.co.uk


Provenance: Lorna Cattanach Collection; A.T. Macmillan Collection, Simmons Galleries Mailbid Sale, 2 October 2007 (81) [from L.C. February 2002]


Revd James Paterson (†1842) emigrated from Auchtergavan, Scotland, in 1834 and, after working in Montego Bay for a few months, preached his first sermon at Broughton Place, Jamaica, in 1835. The church was completed in 1842, the same year that Paterson was killed when he was thrown from his horse. Revd. Andrew Gordon Hogg (†1886), ordained in Broughton Place, Edinburgh in 1844, minister from 1845 until his retirement in 1882, was a witness to the killings which led to the outbreak of the Morant Bay rebellion of 1865


CHRISTIANA, Mount Olivet Presbyterian Church, octagonal white metal, legend both sides, 27 x 19mm, 4.90g/6h (Lyall 199; Burzinski 5003). Very fine and extremely rare


£250-350


Provenance: A.T. Macmillan Collection, Simmons Galleries Mailbid Sale, 2 October 2007 (77) [from A.D. Hamilton May 1986]


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