Tokens from the late David Griffiths Collection (Part VIII)
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DEVON, County series, William Upcott, Twopence, 1801, view of Eddystone lighthouse, rev. view of Spurn Point lighthouse, edge plain, flan of normal thickness, 34.87g/6h (D 21; Spink 51, 262, this piece). An attractive original striking without any die cracks and only the merest hint of a flaw on the Spurn lighthouse, extremely fine and very rare £500-£700
Provenance: SNC March 1910 (74285); W. Sykes Collection, Spink Auction 51, 16 April 1986, lot 262. Sold with original Spink paper envelope and Spink receipted invoice dated 10 March 1910, detailing the purchase of this piece and that in the following lot.
Exhibition: Yorkshire Numismatic Society, Leeds, 7 December 1912.
William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and librarian, was a keen collector of coins and tokens by the turn of the 19th century and lived in Islington, London. Upcott designed this token; it and the next lot have been retained under Devon, following published literature. See the detailed footnote to Spink 51, 262, for further contemporary background to the token and the restrikes
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previous but in their final state, edge plain, 35.15g/12h (D 21; Spink 51, 263, this piece). A late striking with ship clear of sea on obverse, flaws on lighthouse and in legend on reverse, extremely fine and very rare
£300-£400 947
Provenance: SNC March 1910 (74286); W. Sykes Collection, Spink Auction 51, 16 April 1986, lot 263 DEVON, County series, William Upcott, Twopence, 1801, a bronzed restrike by W.J. Taylor from the same dies as
LANCASHIRE, [Bury, John Minshull], 1977, brass, FIRST SERIES, NO. 1, THE HERALDIC LION, etc, rev. lion rampant, edge plain, 25mm, 6.35g/12h; NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, Beeston, Alan Judd, brass 5 Pence, 1993 (5), COINS OF BEESTON, etc, revs. value, two stamped D, all 32mm; together with Token Congress metallic ephemera from 1991, 1992 (2) and 2004 (2) [Lot]. As issued
£10-£20
John S. Minshull, a former carpet dealer, traded as Farthing Specialist (Regd) from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. Alan W. Judd, a graduate in metaphysics from the University of St Andrews and sometimes pseudonymously known as Mulholland Cobwright, Shirley Hodsley or Malachy Greensword, established Coins of Beeston in 1980; the company remains in business 39 years later. A consultant for the auctioneers Mellors & Kirk, he retains a keen interest in all types of tokens and paranumismatica and is the current president of the Numismatic Society of Nottinghamshire
948
LONDON, Bloomsbury, Sir Augustus Franks, 1884, silver, by A. Wyon, shield within floral border, AVGWFRANKS MA FRS FSA, rev. crest, a falcon, CONTEMNIT VULNERA VIRTUS, 29mm, 10.49g/12h (Caygill and Cherry, pp. 302-3 and pl. 50; BHM 3163). Light graze by falcon’s breast, otherwise virtually as struck and attractively toned, extremely rare Provenance: Bt Baldwin 1987.
£150-£200
Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks (1826-97), antiquary, collector and museum curator; born in Geneva, educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, moved to London in 1849 and in 1851 was appointed an assistant in the newly-established Department of Antiquities at the British Museum, under the supervision of Edward Hawkins. In 1866 Franks was appointed Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography, a position he held until his retirement in 1896. Of independent means, Franks was one of the major benefactors to the Museum in the 19th century and the subject of a recent reference edited by Marjorie Caygill and John Cherry, A.W. Franks, Nineteenth-Century Collecting and the British Museum (London, 1997). In that reference, Luke Syson speculates that Franks had these pieces struck as gifts for friends, in the manner of similar silver counters struck by Sir Robert Cecil and other officers of state at the beginning of the 17th century
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