Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Swindon [New Swindon], Grapes Inn, J. Kempster, brass Threepence by W. Smith, 23mm; New Swindon ISL [Est. 1860], brass Half-Sovereign, 20mm, brass 1 Pound, 23mm (Rains 9, 10); New Swindon ICSL, 1lb (3, oval brass, oval red fibre, hexagonal brass), 26 x 20mm, 26 and 25mm, 2lbs (3, brass, red fibre, square brass), 31, 31 and 26mm (Rains 11, 12, –, 15, 17, 18); New Swindon ICS, East Street, aluminium Halfcrown, 25mm (Rains 22); New Swindon CSL, rectangular aluminium 1 Pint Milk, 38 x 24mm (Rains 26); Ship Inn, Townsend’s Bowling Saloon, brass Threepence, 24mm (Greenaway 1182, this piece) [12]. Last extremely fine, others fine to very fine, a few better £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Wiltshire Coins, Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by the late David Ward.

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Provenance: First bt October 2011; second and last B.M. Greenaway Collection, DNW Auction T4, 13 December 2006, lot 1182 (part) [second from D.G. Vorley October 1990, last from F. Stevens November 1993].

J. Kempster, innholder, The Grapes, 1863-71