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19th Century, Slough, Slough Cattle Market, uniface brass Twopence check, slough cattle market around value, edge plain, 32mm, 10.68g; Slough M[otor] T[ransport Depot, brass check, rev. dept, un-numbered, edge plain, 38mm, 16.10g/6h; Slough Urban District Council, uniface brass check, stamped 223, edge plain, 33mm, 8.90g; Slough & District Co-operative Society Ltd, octagonal copper check for Half-Quartern, 29mm, 6.74g/12h (listed by Rains from this specimen); Thames Valley College, yellow plastic check, thames valley college both sides, 1.68g/12h; Klix, brass machine token, numbered 1 [for One Drink], value, rev. stylised representation of a vending machine cup, edge plain, 8.78g/12h (Hayes 224) [6]. Second scratched on obverse, otherwise generally about very fine, all rare except the last (£40-50)

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

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Provenance:
*Cattle Market gift of G Ferguson, September 1987.
MT Depot bt J Whitmore November 1999.
UDC gift of G Ferguson, October 1994.
Co-op bt Eden Coins February 1992.
TVC bt B Greenaway June 1996.
Klix bt G Scott April 1992.

Slough & District Co-operative Society Ltd, established 1892.
Klix, part of Four Square, the drinks division of the Mars group of companies, based at Slough