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TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS


1063


IRELAND ISLAND, Co-operative Society Ltd, uniface brass Eightpence, 29mm, 5.27g (Lyall 106; cf. DNW 81, 268). Surface encrustation and some surface blistering on the back, otherwise about very fine, very rare


£150-200 Provenance: Bt C. Plante 1999 British Guiana


1068


IRELAND ISLAND, Co-operative Society Ltd, uniface brass Penny, 29mm, 5.28g (Lyall –). Good very fine, very rare


£150-250 Provenance: Bt Format December 2005


1069 1064


IRELAND ISLAND, Co-operative Society Ltd, uniface brass Sevenpence, 29mm, 5.39g (Lyall 107). Very fine and very rare


£150-200 Provenance: Bt C. Plante 1999


ENMORE, St. Mark’s Church, uniface white metal communion token, 1841, legend, 26 x 19mm, 4.84g (Lyall 126; Burzinski 1928). Tin pest on left side, otherwise very fine, extremely rare


£150-200


Provenance: Lorna Cattanach Collection; A.T. Macmillan Collection, Simmons Galleries Mailbid Sale, 2 October 2007 (74) [from L.C. February 2002].


The original St Mark’s church opened in October 1827 1070 1065


IRELAND ISLAND, Co-operative Society Ltd, uniface brass Fivepence, 29mm, 5.67g (Lyall 108). Good very fine, very rare


£150-200 Provenance: Bt C. Plante 1999


GEORGETOWN, Balgarnie & Co, Stiver, 1838, obv. countermarked J. WALKER, 33mm, 14.84g (Lyall 111 var; Prid. 60 var; KM. Tn2 var); Dog tax, brass check, 1876-7, crowned L, rev. stamped 138, 26mm, 5.17g (Lyall 115); together with George III, Stivers (3), all 1813, obvs. countermarked JW in frame, LLOYDS WEEKLY NEWSPAPER THREE PENCE POST FREE; rev. countermarked W.S. BLISS (cf. Prid. 29) [5]. Second fine, others in varied state; third pierced and said to have been used as a gambling chip


£30-40


Provenance: First bt P. Bosco August 1997; third bt C. Plante 1995; fourth A Collection of Coins of Demerary and Essequibo, Spink Auction 112, 5 March 1996, lot 99 (part).


Balgarnie & Co, liquor store and dry goods merchants, Water street 1071


GEORGETOWN, Bookers Shipping (Demerara) Ltd, aluminium check, BOOKERS SHIPS LABOURERS, back stamped 730, 35mm, 4.03g (Lyall 114, this piece; Prid. –); Middlemass Bros & Co, brass check, c. 1870, 24.5mm, 4.31g (Lyall 116; Prid. 63) [2]. First fine and very rare, second about extremely fine


£60-80 1066


IRELAND ISLAND, Co-operative Society Ltd, uniface brass Threepence, 29mm, 5.18g (Lyall 109; cf. DNW 81, 269). Good very fine, very rare


£150-200 Provenance: Bt C. Plante 1999


Provenance: First R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-14 June 1975, lot 1072 (recté British Guiana); second E.C. Leslie Collection, Henry Christensen Auction 66 (New York), 7 April 1978, lot 15.


Bookers Shipping (Demerara) Ltd, originally founded by Josias Booker, who emigrated from Liverpool to Demerara as a plantation manager in 1815


1072


1067


IRELAND ISLAND, Co-operative Society Ltd, uniface brass Threepence, 29mm, 5.16g (Lyall 109; cf. DNW 81, 269). Very fine and very rare


£100-150 Additional lot images may be found on our website


GEORGETOWN, Richard Kaps, souvenir gold medalet [1910], sailing ship, rev. St George and dragon, 14mm, 1.43g/12h (Prid. 69). Usual light die cracks on reverse, extremely fine and free of mount marks, unusual and attractive


£100-150


Richard P. Kaps, jeweller, 40 Water street; further details of him are given by Pridmore ( SNC November 1959)


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