Irish Tokens from the Collection of the late Barry Woodside

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co Galway, Glenlough, Menlough Castle, [Sir John Blake], copper Sixpence, 1819, 28mm (W 2515; D & W 337/30); M[artin] Blake, pewter, 30mm (W 2510; D & W 337/25), copper Eightpence, Sixpence, Fourpence and Threepence, all 30mm (W 2511-14; D & W 337/26-9) [6]. First two fair, others fine £90-£120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Irish Tokens from the Collection of the late Barry Woodside.

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Provenance: First bt S. Byrne 1993; others bt in Dublin 1987.

Martin Joseph Blake (1790-1861), scion of a family of Galway merchant bankers and proprietor of the Ballyglunin Estate