Tokens from the late David Griffiths Collection (Part VIII)
973
NORTHUMBERLAND, Gosforth, Robert Bell, 1966, copper, by S.G.M. Adams, Dr Bell performing operation, rev. RCB monogram, edge plain, 32mm, 14.28g/12h. Obverse partly toned, otherwise virtually as struck; in original black fitted case
£50-£70 Provenance: DNW Auction T4, 13 December 2006, lot 1325.
Robert Charles Bell (1917-2002), surgeon and token collector. Sold with ALS from Bell to Robert Sharman, 21 November 1983, which states: “I enclose, as promised, one of my Private tokens struck by Myers Adams of Leeds. Note MA below EXCHANGE on reverse. The anaesthetist is Dr Eustace, the surgeon with back to camera, myself, the sister-figure on the L is sister Simpson, the assistant facing camera I have forgotten, the three nurses behind the instrument trolley from L [to] R are Nurse Carr, Nurse Oxley & I have forgotten the third. It may be Nurse Marshall. The operation was the pollicization of an index finger (making a thumb by transferring & rotating & shortening the index finger [)]. I had 78, & Mr Adams kept 1 in copper, 1 in silver & 1 in gold for himself. I do not know where these are now. M.A. died about 10 yrs ago”
974
NORTHUMBERLAND, Gosforth, Robert Bell, 1966, copper (2), by S.G.M. Adams, from the same dies as previous, edge plain, 32mm, 14.12g/12h; from the altered obv. die with the head of Fame blowing a trumpet added to centre and without the artist’s initials, edge plain, 15.07g/6h [2]. Some light spotting, otherwise virtually as struck, the second very rare
£50-£70
Provenance: First bt B. Hennem February 2002; second R.G. Doty Collection [by exchange September 1988] and sold with note in the hand of R.G.D., ‘R.C. Bell Private Token, 12th of 12 struck (11th went to ANS)’
975
NORTHUMBERLAND, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, John Bell, Farthing (?), in lead, sailing barge, rev. COALY TYNE, edge plain, 7.09g/12h (Davisson, CTCJ 66, p.8; W p.134; D 29; cf. DNW 141, 1049). Obverse fair, reverse better than fine, extremely rare; sold as viewed and not subject to return
£50-£70 Provenance: L.L. Fletcher Collection; F.S. Cokayne Collection [from L.L.F. June 1916]; bt Baldwin May 1985.
John Bell (1783-1864), bookseller, antiquary and numismatist, firstly of Newcastle and, after being declared bankrupt in November 1817, later a land surveyor at Gateshead. The status of this, and other related pieces, is uncertain. Withers opined that they are fantasies struck for collectors (of whom John Bell was one) but Davisson has shown that it is apparently of the period, or at least dates to some time in the early 19th century
976
NORTHUMBERLAND, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, William Norman, a George III Penny, 1797, obv. impressed with an incuse impression of a Victorian Halfpenny [1860-94], without date, probably taken from a working die, rev. scratched PENNY TOKEN PAYABLE BY W. NORMAN 1897 NEWCASTLE ON TYNE within and around punched oval, 25.00g/10h. Undertype worn almost flat, otherwise much as made, unusual and very rare; only the second example seen by the cataloguer in 50 years
£50-£80
William Norman, 23 Eldon place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (fl. 1908), was one of the pre-eminent token collectors in the last quarter of the 19th century. His original interest in the 1870s was the 17th century series, but by the end of that decade he started to acquire 18th and 19th century tokens, almost all in the best possible condition; many of them are contained within the portion of the Cokayne collection being sold in this auction. The Norman collection was dispersed in four sales at Sotheby’s between 1903 and 1908
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