Worcestershire Tokens from the Collection of the late John Whitmore

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Pershore, Atlas Works, brass, stamped 15, ep, 31mm, 8.06g; W[illiam] R[obert] Deakin, aluminium Threepence, eg, 25mm, 1.37g/12h; George Eccles, aluminium Sixpence and brass Fourpence by Vaughton, eg, both 26mm, 1.49g/12h, 4.68g/12h; T[homas] Winter, brass 5 and 2 Shillings, eg, 24 and 21mm, 3.75g, 2.76g [6]. First about fine, others about very fine and better, but last struck on a bar end £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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Third and fourth gift of the issuer’s family to F. Pridmore in Cyprus, July 1968, then to R.N.P. Hawkins; R.N.P. Hawkins Collection, Glendining Auction, 16 March 1988, lot unspecified.

Fisher Humphries & Co, Atlas Works, manufacturers of farm equipment; William Robert Deakin (1862-1943), fruit canner and jam manufacturer, see Lot 137; Thomas Winter, grocer and wine merchant, Bridge street