19th Century, Aylesbury, a George III Penny, 1797, obv. countermarked payne cutler aylesbury in three lines, 25.37g/6h (Scott 3:1); a George III Penny, 1797, obv. countermarked f. thompson and ft in centre, ip three times around, rev. countermarked f. thompson and ft in centre, payne cutler aylesbury around, 26.53g/6h (Scott –); Hazell, Watson & Viney, a uniface brass Twopence check, edge plain, 30mm, 9.02g; Hazell Watson & Viney Ld, a uniface brass Canteen Penny check, edge plain, 32mm, 7.69g [4]. First two undertypes worn, countermarks very fine and fine respectively, last two very fine; all very rare (£60-80)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Tokens.

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Provenance:
*Scott 3:1 gift of V J Churcher, August 1982.
Scott – bt A Judd February 2000.
*HWV 2d Sotheby Auction, 15-16 July 1980, lot 631 (part).

HWV 1d W J Noble Collection, Pt II, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61 [Melbourne], 3-4 August 1999, lot 1186 (part);
bt S Monks August 1999.

Charles Payne, cutler, Temple Street, Aylesbury, listed in Pigot’s 1830 Directory.

Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, printers and bookbinders, established in Aylesbury in 1839. George Allen, Ruskin’s publisher, wrote in 1889 ‘Messrs. Hazell’s place in Aylesbury is quite an ideal printing-office – with light and cheerful buildings, allotment gardens, recreation grounds, clubs, a magazine, and all the other machinery for ‘mutual improvement’. By the turn of the 20th century the company, under managing partner W H Hazell (1869-1929), had become the UK distributors for American-made Esterbrook fountain pens. In recent years the company became BPC Consumer Books, a subsidiary of the British Printing Corporation, but BPC closed the Aylesbury plant in November 1996 with the loss of 140 jobs