BRITISH TOKENS FROM OTHER PROPERTIES Unlocalised issues 386
HMS Fairfax, John Pettie, Farthings (2, same dies), 1.51g/12h, 1.45g/12h (N 9352; D London 969A) [2]. Fair, scarce
£80-100 Provenance: Second SNC August 2001 (963).
John Pettie (†by 1684), purser of HMS Fairfax, a 52-gun frigate built at Chatham 1653, wrecked 1682. He is believed to be the only serving naval officer who issued tokens. Further information is given by Quentin Archer (TCSB June 2012, pp.261-7).
END OF SESSION 1 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION
18th Century Tokens Bedfordshire 387
Leighton Buzzard, Chambers, Langston, Hall & Co, Halfpenny, 1794, 9.46g/6h (DH 3c); HAMPSHIRE, Petersfield, Eames, Holland & Andrews, Halfpenny, 1793, 10.00g/6h (DH 48a); LANCASHIRE, Lancaster, Thomas Worswick & Sons, Halfpenny, 1792, 12.26g/5h (DH 24), Manchester, John Fielding, Halfpenny, 1793, 9.95g/6h (DH 135e); MIDDLESEX, Blackfriars, James Spittle,
Halfpenny,
Bucklersbury, Thomas and Robert Davidson, Halfpenny, 1795, 10.70g/6h (DH 295), City Road, Thomas Hall, Halfpenny, 9.25g/6h (DH 319a), St Martins Lane, William Williams, Halfpenny, 1795, 9.03g/6h (DH 914); Lutwyche’s Buck Society Halfpenny, 1796, 7.63g/6h (DH 1041e) [9]. About extremely fine and better, but third with collectors’ number ‘479’ on obverse
£90-120 Provenance: Third D.T. Batty Collection Co Durham Gloucestershire 390
Walton-on-the-Naze, John Kirby, Copperas token, WALTON, rev. IK, countermarked 1736 in two punches, 5.49g/12h (D & W 296/147; Mitchiner p.1812; Noble II, 477); together with other miscellaneous tokens, coins, etc (16) [17]. First fine, others in varied state
£60-80 First only illustrated
1795, 9.30g/6h (DH 902), 391
Bristol, J. Chester, Halfpenny, 9.64g/6h (DH Somerset 90); Gloucester, Kempson’s City Penny, 1797, rev. St Michael’s Church, 16.14g/6h (DH 5); SOMERSET, Bath, William Glover, Halfpenny, small [27mm] flan, 9.69g/6h (DH 28), Mary Lambe & Son, Lutwyche’s Penny, 1794, 20.53g/6h (DH 8), Lutwyche’s Penny, 21.28g/6h (DH 4) [5]. First three about extremely fine but DH 90 lightly lacquered and DH 28 with collector’s number on obverse, others fine and better
£90-120
Provenance: DH 28 D.T. Batty Collection. First only illustrated
388
Sunderland, Wyon’s Penny, 1797, in lead, view of iron bridge with brig passing underneath, rev. two large vessels and a small keel, edge plain, 19.26g/6h (DH 2). Very fine, extremely rare in this metal; the only example seen by the cataloguer in commerce
£300-400 Essex
Hampshire 392 389
Chelmsford, Kempson’s mule Halfpenny, 9.28g/6h (DH 7); Dunmow, Skidmore’s Halfpenny, 12.12g/12h (DH 11b); Hornchurch, George Cotton, Halfpenny, 9.68g/6h (DH 34); SUFFOLK, Hoxne and Hartsmere, Thomas Tallant, Halfpenny, 1795, 11.16g/6h (DH 33d); together with other miscellaneous tokens (5), of Cambridgeshire, Essex (3) and Norfolk [9]. Those described about extremely fine and better, DH 34 bronzed, others generally very fine
£120-150 Third only illustrated Additional illustrations may be found on our web site
Basingstoke, John Pinkerton, Mynd’s Shilling, 1789 [7 over 8], 14.05g/6h (DH 1); Emsworth, John Stride, Halfpenny, 1793, 8.47g/6h (DH 9), mule Halfpence by Kempson (5), 10.50g/6h (DH 15, unflawed die), 9.23g/6h (DH 17), 9.63g/12h (DH 20a), 9.32g/6h (DH 21), 8.81g/6h (DH 30); Gosport, John Jordan, Halfpenny, 1794, 10.49g/6h (DH 41); Portsea, Samuel Salmon, John Courtney and Edward Frost, Halfpenny, 1796, 10.66g/6h (DH 79), George Sargeant, Halfpence, 1794 (4), 9.40g/6h (DH 68), 10.31g/6h (DH 70), 10.23g/6h (DH 73), 10.41g/6h (DH 75); Portsmouth, G. Robinson, J. Mooney and J. Carter, Halfpenny, 1797, 9.17g/6h (DH 58), Thomas Sharp, Halfpenny, 1794, 10.20g/6h (DH 55), issuer uncertain, Halfpence, 1797 (2), VALENTINE edges, 9.75g/6h, 9.61g/6h (DH 67); Southampton, Taylor, Moody & Co, Halfpenny, 1791, 10.72g/12h (DH 89, bronzed); County series, Naval Farthings (2), 4.50g/11h (DH 101), 3.49g/6h (DH 103) [20]. DH 1 good fine, DH 58, both 67s and 89 extremely fine, others very fine and better, some lacquered, a few with original colour
£300-400
Provenance: DH 1, 67 at 9.61g and 79 J.R. Farnell Sr Collection, Part I, Sotheby Auction (New York), 8 December 1981, lots 38, 48 (parts); DH 17 bt Spink 1973; DH 55 and 70 W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lot 58 (part) [70 from Spink 1912]
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