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17th Century, Newton Longville, Jeffery Willison, Halfpenny, roll of tobacco dividing two pipes, 2.05g/3h (Berry & Morley 138; SCBI Norweb 326b, this piece; BW. 105B). About fine, scarce; the only issue for this locality (£60-80)

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

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Provenance:
R A Nott Collection [bt by Spink];
Mrs Emery May Norweb Collection;
SNC September 1988 (5758);
J Maitland Collection, BDW Auction 8, 16 November 1994, lot 735 (part).

Jeffery Willison (1641-1722), tobacconist, also Quaker; his wife’s name was Joan (†January 1710). Willison also owned freehold property at Stoke Hammond