British Tokens from Various Properties 169
LONDON, High Holborn, Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, St Paul’s Covent Garden, rev. church ruins, 8.45g/6h (DH 522a), Strand, Gilbert Pidcock, Halfpenny, monkey, rev. crane, 9.32g/6h (DH 458); SUFFOLK, Bungay, Samuel Prentice, Samuel Delf and Mathias Abel Sr, Halfpenny, 1795, 8.70g/6h (DH 21a); together with other miscellaneous tokens, 18th century (12), 19th century (6, one in silver) [21]. Those described good very fine and better, others about very fine and better
£150-£200 170
LONDON, Jermyn Street, John Carter, Halfpenny, 1795, 7.87g/12h (DH 275); Long Acre, Basil Burchell, Halfpence or medalets (2), copper, 9.40g/6h (DH 274), white metal, 5.69g/12h (DH 274 bis), John Fowler, Halfpenny, 1794, 8.75g/6h (DH 306); Ludgate Hill, Henry Young, Pennies, 1794 (2), with date, 13.76g/5h (DH 39), flawed obv. die, no date, 16.33g/5h (DH 39, note); Newgate Street, Henry Symonds, William Winterbotham, James Ridgway and Daniel Holt, Kempson’s Halfpence (3), 1794 (2), 9.38g/6h (DH 392), 10.55g/6h (DH 393), 1795, 10.49g/6h (DH 396b) [9]. DH 274 bis very fine, others about extremely fine and better, two with original colour
£100-£150
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321). Extremely fine
Provenance: Jeffrey Hoare Auction 55 (London, CAN), 20 February 1997, lot 242 LONDON, Leather Lane, John Hancock, Halfpenny, 1796, large umbrella, rev. JH cypher, edge plain, 12.35g/1h (DH
£90-£120
LONDON, Long Acre, Basil Burchell, Halfpenny or medalet, 9.39g/6h (DH 274), Ludgate Hill, Henry Young, Penny, 1794, with date, 13.32g/5h (DH 39), Skidmore’s Gates, Halfpenny, Cripplegate, 11.84g/12h (DH 653), Lutwyche’s Buck Society Halfpenny, 1796, 8.84g/6h (DH 1041), Mainwaring’s ‘Map of France’ Halfpenny, 1794, 9.98g/6h (DH 1017f); NORFOLK, Norwich, Nathaniel Bolingbroke, Halfpenny, 1792, 9.74g/6h (DH 14), John Rooks, Halfpenny, 1793, 10.40g/6h (DH 46a) [7]. DH 274 and 653 extremely fine with original colour, others very fine and better but DH 39 stained
£70-£90 Provenance: DH 274 bt B.M. Greenaway; DH 46a bt Seaby 1978 173 174 175
LONDON, Strand, Gilbert Pidcock, Farthing, elephant, rev. cockatoo, 3.23g/6h (DH 1067a); together with other miscellaneous 18th century Farthing tokens (10) [11]. Varied state
£30-£40
NORTHUMBERLAND, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Spence’s mule Halfpenny, sailor, rev. men under tree, edge SPENCE DEALER IN COINS LONDON, 10.39g/6h (DH 14). About extremely fine
£70-£90
SHROPSHIRE, Willey and Snedshill, John Wilkinson, Halfpence, 1787 (12), 13.94g/12h (DH Warwickshire 340), 14.57g/12h (DH 341), 14.50g/12h (DH 343), 13.76g/12h (DH 344), 13.57g/11h (DH 348), 13.94g/12h (DH 351), 14.09g/12h (DH 353), 14.19g/11h (DH 354), 14.28g/11h (DH 358), 13.89g/11h (DH 359), 14.26g/12h (DH 361), 14.55g/12h (DH 366, this piece illustrated) [12]. DH 353 extremely fine with original colour, DH 351 and 359 very fine, others about fine and better, DH 348 and 366 extremely rare
£150-£200
Provenance: DNW Auction T14, 1 October 2014, lot 508, additionally: DH 340, 341, 343, 348, 353, 354, 358 and 361 Fawcett/Litman Collection, D.L. Spence Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 67A, 29 September 2005, lot 1648 (part), DH 366 J. Atkins Collection, F.S. Cokayne Collection [from J.A. December 1905]
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SHROPSHIRE, Willey and Snedshill, John Wilkinson, Halfpence (3), 1787, 14.09g/12h (DH Warwickshire 359), 1790, 13.92g/6h (DH 387), 1792, 11.68g/6h (DH 389) [3]. Extremely fine, first with diffused original colour; sold with a paper wrapper inscribed ‘John Wilkinson’ in a contemporary hand
£100-£150
Provenance: J. Watt Jr Collection, Morton & Eden Auction 2, 13-14 November 2002, lot 285 (part); DNW Auction T14, 1 October 2014, lot 509
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Provenance: First bt Baldwin 1993 SHROPSHIRE, Willey and Snedshill, John Wilkinson, Halfpenny, 1788, 13.83g/12h (DH Warwickshire 336); together
with miscellaneous 18th century tokens (56), various locations, including Welsh, Scottish and Irish issues [57]. First about very fine, others in varied state
£180-£220 178 179
Provenance: H. Brown Collection WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham, Peter Kempson, Penny, 1796, 25.66g/12h (DH 20); together with other miscellaneous
18th century tokens (25) [26]. Very fine £100-£150
WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham, Workhouse, Gimblett’s Two Shillings and Sixpence, 1788, in brass, 19.55g/12h (DH 1); together with a Bilston Penny, 1812 [2]. Very fine
£60-£80
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plain, 3.83g/6h (DH Essex 42). Extremely fine and attractively patinated, rare
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Provenance: Sotheby Auction, 12 November 1981, lot 214 (part); P. Spurdens Collection [from Seaby November 1981] WORCESTERSHIRE, Leigh, J. Hemmin, Farthing, 1796, view of St Mary’s Church, rev. DEALER IN ALL KIND OF HARDWARE, edge
£90-£120
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