Tokens from the late David Griffiths Collection (Part VIII) 1002
WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham, Samuel Hiron, brass (2), eye over shield flanked by Faith, Hope and Charity, rev. embossing press, edge grained, 26mm, 5.46g/12h (Hawkins p.296, item (i)), conjoined municipal arms, rev. DIE SINKER SEAL ENGRAVER, etc, edge grained, 32mm, 8.85g/12h (Hawkins p.296, item (iii)); Henry Sale, brass, crowned arms within Garter flanked by lion and stag, rev. H.B. SALE LIMITED COINS TOKENS CARD COUNTERS, etc, edge plain, 24mm, 4.68g/12h (Hawkins –); Vaughton, brass, DIE SINKERS & LETTER CUTTERS HERALDIC JEWELLERS, etc, rev. MAKERS OF MEDALS, BADGES, etc, edge plain, 30mm, 7.03g/12h (Hawkins p.488) [4]. First good fine, third extremely fine, others very fine Provenance: Third bt J. Whitmore May 1982; last bt S.E. Schwer September 1984.
£30-£40
Samuel Hiron, a printer from Dudley with stationery works at 5 Newhall street, established an embossing press and ticket and check- making factory at 52 St Paul’s square, Birmingham; he was succeeded in the business by his manager in Birmingham, Edwin Cottrill. H. B. Sale Ltd, Constitution hill and later at Summer lane, was founded by Henry Bailey Sale (†1901), a letter-cutter and engraver, in 1862; the present limited company was formed in the wake of the founder’s death at his home in Solihull. Vaughton, later Vaughton & Bailey, Philip Vaughton & Sons, Vaughton Bros and Vaughtons Ltd, is said to trace its origins to the firm of goldsmiths and jewellers founded by Philip Vaughton in Summer lane in, according to popular websites, 1819 (although the late Roy Hawkins preferred the early 1830s); the Gothic Works in Livery street was the company’s headquarters and the token above dates to 1902-9. In the latter year the firm was restyled Vaughtons Ltd
1003
WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham, Taylor & Challen Ltd, 1903 (2), silver-plated and bronze, coining press, revs. legend, edges plain, both 32mm, 12.27g/12h, 13.21g/12h (W –; Hawkins p.470); undated (2), both brass, coining press, revs. legend, edges grained, both 24mm, 6.45g/12h, 6.35g/12h (W 3074) [4]. First extremely fine with mottled tone, others very fine and better
£80-£100 Provenance: First bt Format.
Taylor & Challen Ltd, Derwent Works, 99 Constitution hill, established 1889, was the formally restyled name of the former business of Joseph Taylor, diesinker and medallist in Birmingham from 1865; the company was known as Taylor & Challen by 1880. It was subsumed within Associated British Machine Tool Makers Ltd in 1964
1004
WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham, Edward Thomason, Proof Penny, 1811, in gilt-copper, bust left in wreath, rev. value, edge neatly grained, 18.29g/12h (W 281b; cf. DNW 66, 935). Extremely fine and extremely rare
£400-£500
Provenance: F. Willis Collection, Glendining Auction, 13 May 1981, lot 254 (part); W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 1928; D.E. Litrenta Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 66, 6 July 2005, lot 934 [from R. Gladdle].
Sir Edward Thomason (1769-1849), medallist and token manufacturer, 28 Church street, was articled to Matthew Boulton in 1785. Following the death of his father, also Edward, in 1793, Thomason took over the family firm of buttonmakers, expanding the business into the manufacture of tokens, medals and, when he could obtain them, coinage contracts. The company was sold in 1835 to a firm headed by the medallist G.R. Collis and Thomason continued to work there until his retirement in 1844, when he removed to Ludlow, and later Warwick, where he died in 1849
1005
WARWICKSHIRE, Grendon, Sir George Chetwynd, 1833, silver, by B. Wyon, bust right, rev. elevation of Grendon Hall, edge QUOD DEUS VULT FIET, goat’s head erased at beginning and end of legend, 34mm, 21.75g/12h (W 3016, recté 34mm; Bell, 1966, A1). Reverse edge knock at 3 o’clock, otherwise extremely fine and toned, extremely rare Provenance: Bt J. Whitmore May 2001.
£600-£800
Sir George Chetwynd, 2nd Bt (1783-1850), Grendon Hall, Atherstone, was collecting tokens by the end of the reign of George III. His collection, said to be the best in existence in the second quarter of the 19th century, was catalogued by Thomas Sharp in 1834 and sold by his eldest son through Christie’s in 1872. By profession Chetwynd was a lawyer, called to the Bar in 1813; he served as MP for Stafford 1820-6 and subsequently High Sheriff for Warwickshire, 1828-9. He lived firstly at the family seat, Brocton Hall, near Stafford, relocating to Grendon Hall after the death of his father in 1824. Grendon Hall was demolished in 1933
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