British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Bristol, Old England, brass Threepence by S.A. Daniell, bowling saloon, etc, rev. value, eg, 23.5mm, 4.28g/12h, J. Salter, brass Twopence, rev. value, eg, 24mm, 4.13g/12h, brass Sixpence, similar, eg, 24mm, 4.30g/12h; Ostrich Inn, W.J. Pillinger, brass Twopence, rev. value in wreath, edge crudely grained, 26mm, 5.86g/12h; Park Tavern, brass Sixpence by H. Harper, rev. view of entrance to Dudley Castle, eg, 26.5mm, 5.41g/12h (Hawkins p.555, item b, not listed; WC p.330); Parnall Aircraft Ltd, uniface brass, tools, etc, stamped 3701, ep, 27mm, 5.49g [6]. About very fine and better, last pierced (£90-120)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Collection formed by the late Barry Greenaway.

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Fourth only illustrated. Ostrich Inn, Lower Guinea street, Redcliffe; Park Tavern, Whiteladies road, Clifton. George Parnall & Sons, of Mivart street, Eastville, was a firm of woodworkers and shopfitters which branched out into manufacturing aircraft components in World War I and, later, complete aircraft. In 1919 the company was taken over by W. & T. Avery but, because Avery’s considered prospects in the aviation industry poor with the cessation of hostilities, Parnall left to found a new company, George Parnall & Co Ltd, which relocated to Fishponds in 1923 and built a number of naval prototypes. In 1935 the company was renamed Parnall Aircraft Ltd, chaired by Sir Ridley Vaughan of ICI and with Archie Frazer-Nash, of sports car fame, as joint managing director; it manufactured the airframes for Supermarine Spitfires in World War II