Ancient, British and World Coins. Tokens, Tickets and Passes. Historical and Art Medals. Numismatic Books. British and World Banknotes

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Cox, B.G., The Seventeenth Century Token Coinage of Blandford Forum, Dorset, Blandford, 1983, 9pp rectos, illustrations; Coles, P., The Wimborne Trade Tokens 1657-1670, 23pp, engraved illustrations; Udal, J.S., Dorsetshire Folk-Lore, 2nd edn, St Peter Port, 1970, and 3rd edn, Exeter, 1989; together with an exercise book containing a detailed record of the British Museum’s collection of Dorset tokens compiled by Preston-Morley, and photocopies of the Carthew collection [5]. Fourth a mint copy with d.j., others fine copies, third inscribed to Preston-Morley by Udal’s grandson, John Oliver Udal, 1992 (£40-50)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Library of Token Books.

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John Symonds Udal (1848-1925), judge, folklorist, collector of Dorset tokens and editor of the Dorset section of Williamson’s Boyne; his tokens are now in the British Museum