Auction Catalogue

8 November 2017

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British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

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Lot

№ 718

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8 November 2017

Hammer Price:
£420

19th Century Tokens, STAFFORDSHIRE, Perry Barr, William Booth, Penny, 1811 [a copy c. 1900], wheatsheaf, rev. value, edge plain, 21.22g/12h (W 956; Gorsler, CTCJ Fall 2007, p.23, this piece). Virtually as struck with full original colour, rare; in a red fitted case £240-300

Provenance: W. Sykes Collection, Spink Auction 51, 16 April 1986, lot 264 [from W.J. Davis]; F. Gorsler Collection, DNW Auction T12, 3 October 2012, lot 146

This token has only had four owners from new – Davis, Sykes, Gorsler and the vendor