Tokens from the late David Griffiths Collection (Part VIII)


1056


YORKSHIRE, Hull, William Sykes, 1902 (8), all bright copper, by J.A. Restall, arms, WS cypher below, revs. Dock Offices, 21.65g/12h; Grammar School [uniface], 21.61g; Holy Trinity Church, 21.36g/12h; Hymers College, 21.54g/12h; Royal Infirmary, 21.51g/12h; Town Hall, 21.73g/12h; William III statue, 21.42g/12h; together with an extra uniface obv., 21.28g, edges plain, all 33mm (cf. W 3065-71; Bell, 1966, A11-17) [8]. One or two minor marks, otherwise brilliant, of the highest rarity; in original blue fitted leatherette case Provenance: W. Sykes Collection, Spink Auction 51, 16 April 1986, lot 298.


£300-£400 Only two sets in bright copper, both incorporating an extra uniface obverse, were struck. The recipient of the other was S.H. Hamer


1057


plain, 32mm, 15.05g/12h; aluminium, from the same rev. die as previous, rev. Kirkstall Abbey, edge plain, 32mm, 3.45g/12h [2]. Extremely fine and very rare


£30-£50


Myers Adams, medallist, Leeds YORKSHIRE, Leeds, Myers Adams (2), bright bronze, bust right, rev. S G M ADAMS LEEDS, HIS TOKEN FOR EXCHANGE ONLY, edge


1058


YORKSHIRE, Leeds, Gerald Chorley, [1913], uniface convex obv. trial, copper, crest of a falcon’s head surmounting a Cap of Maintenance, 26mm, edge stepped, 14.54g (Bell, 1966, p.297, this piece mentioned). Virtually as made with much original colour; possibly the only known specimen


£200-£300


Provenance: R.C. Bell Collection; W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 439 (part) [from Spink 1975].


Gerald Lorenzo Chorley (1848-1933), 17 Cromer terrace and later 23 Lyddon terrace, Leeds, formerly manager of a cotton mill in Manchester, was the son of Dr Henry Chorley (1810-78), a respected surgeon and JP at 8 Park square, Leeds. It was Henry who commissioned Halliday of Birmingham in 1836 for two dies for striking buttons for the livery of his coachman, the design being that of a falcon’s head on a Cap of Maintenance. One of these dies was utilised by Gerald Chorley, who had recently become a member of the Yorkshire Numismatic Society. Chorley had a new reverse die made in 1913, probably by J.A. Restall, and had 6 pieces struck in silver, 6 in gilt-copper, 25 in bright copper, 25 in bronzed copper, together with two uniface strikings of the obverse and reverse (YNS Transactions I, p.98 [1913])


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