TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS
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Uncertain location, Scottish Missionary Society, oval white metal, S.M.S., rev. LUKE XXII 19 20 THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME, 29 x 24mm, 7.57g/6h (Lyall –; Burzinski 6334; Noble III, 399 [= Climpson 1930]). Fine, of the highest rarity; perhaps only one other known [Norweb/Noble/Climpson] £300-400
Provenance: L.M. Burzinski Collection; bt D. Parker November 2001
Liberia 1240
American Colonization Society, copper Cent, 1833, freed slave holding palm tree and signalling to ship in distance, sun with 15 rays, rev. legend, 28mm, 11.17g/12h (KM. Tn 1 [CH-1]). Good fine
£30-40 American Colonization Society, founded 1816 1246 Martinique
ST PETER, Vue Pointe Hotel, uniface brass, MONTSERRAT WEST INDIES around V.P.H., 22mm, 5.38g. Very fine and very rare; apparently only two known
£30-50 Provenance: Bt June 2006.
The Vue Pointe Hotel, built by Michael Osborne and his son Cedric, was opened in December 1961. These checks were used to operate lights for a tennis court until these lights, and much of the hotel, were wrecked by Hurricane Hugo in September 1989. Although rebuilt by 1994, the eruption of Mt Soufrière in 1995 and the island migration necessary following that disaster caused the hotel to relocate several times in subsequent years and finally close in 2008
Saba 1247 1241
FORT DE FRANCE, H. Dupuis & Cie, plated brass shell card, c. 1910, robed female bust three-quarters right, legend around, rev. AU SANS PAREIL, etc, 38mm, 4.60g (Rulau 2; Byrne 929, this piece). Several areas of surface corrosion, otherwise very fine and very rare £90-120
Provenance: R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-14 June 1975, lot 929.
H. Dupuis & Cie, fl. c. 1891-1922, a chain of general stores headquartered at Fort de France, with branches at Le François, Le Marin, Rivière Pilote, Rivière Salée and Le Saint Esprit
1248
Eilandgebied Bovenwindse Eilanden, copper Dog Licence tags (2), 1955, round, EILAND-GEBIED BOV. EIL. and date, back stamped no. 64, 28mm, 8.47g; 1968/69, pentagonal, EILANDGEBIED BOV. EIL. and date, back stamped 199, 31 x 27mm, 7.70g [2]. Pierced as issued, first fine, second very fine
£10-20
Provenance: Gift of the Police Commandant on Saba 1983 St Bartholomew
W. Beal, aluminium Salt tally by Katz, c. 1935, W. BEAL, rev. BON POUR UN BARIL DE SEL, 19mm, 0.58g/12h (Eckardt, TAMS Journal, December 1987; Ford 672; Tankersley 369). Light surface corrosion, otherwise about very fine £40-60
Provenance: From a small hoard of these pieces found by K.V. Eckardt at the salt ponds of La Grande Salines, August 1975; gift of K.V. Eckardt.
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ST PIERRE, Cercle de Commerce, uniface brass 3 Sous jeton, c. 1810, 3 in a flaming heart border, 22mm, 2.90g (Gadoury-Cousinié 31; Mazard 92). Fine, rare £70-90
Provenance: Bt K.V. Eckardt October 1995
The swamp lands at La Grande Saline were first exploited for salt during the Swedish occupation of the island, but because prices could not compete with salt mined from other neighbouring islands the trade collapsed in 1872. Taken over by France, the French government incentivised those on St Barts to restart the business, but after a cyclone in 1924 trade collapsed until William Beal took over the concession in the early 1930s. The largely female workforce worked an oppressive salt harvesting ‘season’ of 3 months. The trade ceased in 1972
St Domingue (Cap-Français) 1249 1243
ST PIERRE, Cercle de Commerce, uniface brass 2 Sous jeton, c. 1810, 2 in a flaming heart border, 22mm, 2.18g (Gadoury-Cousinié 30; Mazard 92). Fine, rare £70-90
Provenance: Bt K.V. Eckardt October 1995 Additional lot images may be found on our website
Sous Marqué (3), England, George III, Penny [1806-7], obv. countermarked with crowned N, 17.52g; England, George III, Halfpence (2), 1806, 1807, obvs. countermarked with crowned N, 8.91g, 8.52g (Gadoury- Cousinié 10; Byrne 1132-3) [3]. Coins in varied state, countermarks generally fine
£40-50
Provenance: First A. Mangones Collection, Harmer Rooke Auction (New York), 8 April 1976, lot 247; second Marshall Collection, Spink Auction 167, 31 March 2004, lot 493 (part), last bt R.A. Byrne August 1966
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ST PIERRE, Cercle de Commerce, uniface brass 1 Sou jeton, c. 1810, I in a flaming heart border, 24mm, 3.05g (Gadoury-Cousinié 29; Mazard 92). Fine, rare £70-90
Provenance: Bt K.V. Eckardt October 1995 1245
Uncertain attribution, uniface copper 5 (Centimes?) jeton, MARTINIQUE above numeral punched out in stencil style, 23mm, 2.88g (Rulau 7; Byrne 931, this piece); together with a brass tool check, W.D. above broad arrow, MARTINIQUE below, rev. SPIDER F BK. RM. 36 in two lines, 25mm, 3.77g [2]. Fine, second holed as issued
£30-40
Provenance: R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-14 June 1975, lot 931; second bt C. Plante September 1989.
A spider is a term used for a gear-pulling tool Montserrat
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