TOKENS FROM THE LATE DAVID GRIFFITHS COLLECTION (Part III)
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Bath, Mary Lambe & Son, Lutwyche’s mule Penny, 1795, arms of Bath, rev. frontal elevation of India House, edge WE PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ONE PENNY, 19.15g/9h (DH 13). Struck a little off-centre, obverse very fine with weak detail, reverse better, extremely rare
£300-400 Provenance: Baldwin Auction 61, 26 May 2009, lot 275
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Bath, Kempson’s Buildings, Halfpence (15), All Saints Chapel, 13.11g/6h (DH 69); Cross Bath Pump Room (3), 12.28g/6h, 13.92g/12h (both DH 72, unbronzed and bronzed), 13.34g/6h (DH 72b); Free Church, 12.47g/6h (DH 73); Free School, 12.88g/6h (DH 74); General Hospital, 13.71g/12h (DH 75); Kensington Chapel, 13.55g/6h (DH 76); New Pump Room Interior (2), 12.90g/6h (DH 82), 12.41g/6h (DH 82a); New Rooms Principal Entrance, 13.48g/6h (DH 83); Private Baths, 13.25g/6h (DH 79); Pulteney Bridge, 12.78g/6h (DH 80); St Mary’s Chapel (2), 13.29g/6h (DH 77), 13.83g/6h (DH 78); Halfpenny, 1798, Bath Association, 15.13g/6h (DH 84) [16]. Generally extremely fine but DH 72b lacquered, this, DH 80, 82a and 84 rare
£400-500 249
Bath, Mary Lambe & Son, Lutwyche’s Farthing, struck on a Halfpenny blank, tea-chest, rev. camel standing left, rayed sun above, edge PAYABLE AT ADAM SIMPSONS ROMNEY, 9.45g/3h (DH 48a, recorded from this specimen). About extremely fine and patinated, of the highest rarity, no other example believed known
£500-1,000
Provenance: S.H. Hamer Collection, Glendining Auction, 26-8 November 1930, lot 296 (part); F.S. Cokayne Collection; DNW Auction T5, 8 November 2007, lot 199
Provenance: DH 72, 72b and *80 D. Young Collection, Baldwin Auction 6, 11 October 1995, lots 1187 (part), 1192 [72 gift of I. Young October 1974, 72b from G. Rankin March 1982]; DH 84 W. J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 816 [from Baldwin 1978], D.L. Spence Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 67A, 29 September 2005, lot 1665 (part); others Fawcett/Litman Collection, D.L. Spence Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 67A, 29 September 2005, lots 1664 (part), 1665, additionally: DH 69, 72, 73, 75 and 76 F.W. Lincoln Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 February 1936, lot 304 (part) [all from Spink]
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Bath, Payne & Turner, Lutwyche’s Penny, crowned bust of Alfred the Great right, rev. tower and wall, edge WE PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ONE PENNY, 19.56g/6h (DH 7). Light surface metal
extremely rare, the only specimen seen by the cataloguer in commerce
flaws, otherwise about extremely fine and £500-1,000
Provenance: D.L. Spence Collection, Part II,DNWAuction 67A, 29 September 2005, lot 1616 [from Spink 1976].
Missing from all the important collections auctioned in recent years, including Hamer, Lincoln, Waite-Sanderson, Longman, Jan, Young and Noble
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Bath, Lutwyche’s Pennies (4), in copper (2), 22.76g/6h (DH 4), 22.39g/6h (DH 4a), in brass, 23.34g/6h (DH 4), in white metal, 18.28g/6h (DH 4) [4]. Copper about extremely fine but DH 4a with some scratches in reverse field, others very fine, white metal piece with some light tin pest
£100-150
Provenance: D. Young Collection, Baldwin Auction 6, 11 October 1995, lot 1153, additionally: first T.A. Jan Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 35, 11 April 1984, lot 31 (part), *second S.H. Hamer Collection, Glendining Auction, 26-8 November 1930, lot 293 (part), F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin], T.A. Jan Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 35, 11 April 1984, lot 31 (part), third F.S. Cokayne Collection, T.A. Jan Collection, Part II, Spink Auction 35, 11 April 1984, lot 31 (part)
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Bath, Payne & Turner, Halfpence (3), 10.91g/6h, 9.89g/6h, 9.50g/6h (all DH 65, one with slipped edge collar); Kempson’s mule Halfpence (4), 9.90g/6h (DH 63), 9.88g/6h, 9.74g/6h (both DH 63c, edges coarsely and finely grained), 10.45g/6h (DH 64) [7]. Second, fifth and last about extremely fine and better, others very fine
£100-150
Provenance: DH 63, 63cs and *64 Fawcett/Litman Collection, D.L. Spence Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 67A, 29 September 2005, lot 1663; DH 65s D. Young Collection, Baldwin Auction 6, 11 October 1995, lot 1184 (part) [10.91g from Seaby July 1981, 9.89g from Spink November 1974, 9.50g gift of A.H.F. Baldwin 1970]
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Bridgwater, James Holloway & Son, gilt Proof Halfpenny, 1794, frontal elevation of a building, rev. arms, edge ON DEMAND WE PROMISE TO PAY, 10.66g/6h (DH 86). Minor hairlines, otherwise extremely fine and brilliant, rare
£150-200
Provenance: F.S. Cokayne Collection; D. Young Collection, Baldwin Auction 6, 11 October 1995, lot 1197 [from Baldwin March 1982]
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