TICKETS AND PASSES NUMISMATIC BOOKS, ETC
All lots in this section are sold as viewed and NOT subject to return. Viewing is strongly recommended.
581
ADAMS, S., The Essex Collection of post 1820 tokens, tallies & medallions, np, 1993, 296pp, illustrations in text, copy no. 180 (Manville 1737). Fine and clean; letter from the author, 19 October 2005, tipped-in
£20-30 579
Midland and South Western Junction Railway, oval silver and blue enamel pass, monogram on shield, named (The Marquis of Ailesbury), 30 x 23mm, 12.28g. Extremely fine, rare; with clip and ring for suspension
£100-150 Provenance: Bt B.H. Grover December 1986.
Henry Brudenell-Bruce, 5th Marquis of Ailesbury (1842-1911), MP for Chippenham 1886-92. The Midland and South Western Junction Railway linked Cheltenham with Swindon, Marlborough, Andover, Romsey and Southampton. The complete line was opened in 1898
582
AKERMAN, J.Y., A Descriptive Catalogue of London Traders, Tavern and Coffee-House Tokens current in the Seventeenth Century, 3rd edn, London, 1853, xlvii + 237pp, engraved illustrations (Manville –); LONGMAN, W., Tokens of the Eighteenth Century connected with Booksellers & Bookmakers, London, 1916, 90pp, 3 plates, engraved illustrations (Manville 762); WATERS, A.W., Notes on Eighteenth Century Tokens, London, 1954, x + 53pp (Manville 1026); together with other references (4), by Wetton, Boon, etc [7]. Publishers’ bindings; first with spine partly detached, second a very fine copy
£40-50 583 580
Uncertain location, brass bracteate, 1758, C. A:C., Y (or tree) dividing date, all in three lines, 23mm, 1.68g (D & W –; Burzinski –; Seaby ST –; Brodie –); together with a Dundee communion token, 1785 (Burzinski 2140) [2]. Flan of first crimped, otherwise good fine, extremely rare, second fair to fine
£80-100
First only illustrated. The placing of the Y symbol relative to the date is reminiscent of a 1778 bracteate copper check from the Yardside Colliery, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire (Brodie 342); perhaps this is an earlier token from that establishment
ANON, Somersetshire Archaeological & Natural History Society Proceedings during the year 1886, Taunton, 1887, viii, 90 + 183pp, 3 engraved plates, includes ‘Somerset Trade Tokens of the 17th Century, and of the period 1787 to 1817’, by William Bidgood (Manville 529); WEAVER, F.W. (ed), Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological & Natural History Society for the year 1911, Taunton, 1912, xi, 132 + 169pp, 7 plates and other illustrations, includes ‘Taunton Tokens of the Seventeenth Century’ by Henry Symonds (Manville 708); WEAVER, F.W. (ed), Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological & Natural History Society for the year 1915, Taunton, 1916, lxviii + 271pp, 10 plates and other illustrations, includes ‘Somerset Trade Tokens, XVII Century: New Types and Varieties and Corrections of Former Lists’, by H. St George Gray and Henry Symonds (Manville 748) [3]. Modern red cloth, gilt spines, marbled endpapers; 1911 volume with inscription on title page but otherwise fine, others very fine, some pages uncut
£80-100 Provenance: Ex libris David Griffiths, with his bookplates 584
BELL, R.C., Specious Tokens and those struck for General Circulation, 1784-1804, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1968, xvii + 257pp, illustrations in text (Manville 1165); BOON, G.C., Welsh Tokens of the 17th Century, Cardiff, 1973, 144pp, illustrations in text (Manville 1269); SCOTT, J.G., British Countermarks on Copper & Bronze Coins, London, 1975, 179pp, 10 plates (Manville 1324); RAINS, D.R., Catalogue of Co-Operative Checks & Tokens, 2nd edn, Leicester, 2004, 229pp, dedicatory inscription from the author on inside front cover (Manville 1942); WHITMORE, J., The Token Collectors Companion, 2nd impression, Malvern, 2006, 390pp, dj; together with other references (14), by Caldecott, Waddell, Seaby, Dickinson, Berry, etc [19]. Publishers’ bindings; second very fine and fresh, others generally working copies
£60-80 585
BOYNE, W., Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland, London, 1858, xxiii + 630pp, 42 engraved plates (Manville 403). Maroon half-leather, rebacked; covers considerably scuffed, internally fine but with many pencil amends and old prices noted throughout, some plates foxed, signature of J.R. Boyle, 1882, on first free endpaper
£70-90
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