Worcestershire Tokens from the Collection of the late John Whitmore

Inn Tokens, Barnt Green, Victoria Hotel, W[illiam] H[enry] Millman, brass Threepence by Sale, eg, 26mm, 4.10g/12h (W 1040). Good very fine, rare £30-£40

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Worcestershire Tokens from the Collection of the late John Whitmore.

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John Whitmore’s original study, Worcestershire Inn Tokens (Malvern, 1988) describes the pieces known to him then; the basic listing was added to within his The Token Collectors Companion (Malvern, 2006). Unlike most other published works on inn tokens, the sizes of the tokens themselves, and their edge types, were not recorded in either publication, so the opportunity has been taken to remedy that within the descriptions of the following lots