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David Brandon Griffiths
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5 October 2011
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Milton’s Penny, 1796, from the same dies as previous, edge plain, 14.34g/12h (DH 24; Stainton 34). A restrike from the rusted dies, extremely fine with light patination £250-300
Hammer Price: £200
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Milton’s Proof Halfpenny, 1795, in silver, church, rev. dar cypher, aplustre and rudder, edge plain, 9.42g/12h (DH 309; Stainton 33). Some light surface marks and rim nicks on obverse, otherwise about extremely fine, reverse better and toned, extremely rare £400-500
Hammer Price: £350
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Milton’s Halfpenny, 1795, from the same dies as previous, edge plain, 12.34g/12h (DH 309; Stainton 33). Good extremely fine and bronzed, very rare £120-150
Hammer Price: £95
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Skidmore’s Penny, 1795, church, rev. dar cypher, edge on demand we promise to pay one penny, 20.85g/6h (DH 17). Struck over a Penny of Markes Lambe of Bath [DH Somerset 8], extremely fine, obverse patinated, reverse with virtually full original colour, very rare £400-500
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Skidmore’s Penny, 1795, from the same dies as previous, edge plain, 23.64g/6h (DH 17a). Stain on obverse, otherwise extremely fine with original colour, very rare £350-400
Hammer Price: £320
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Skidmore’s Penny, 1795, from the same dies as previous, edge plain, heavy spread flan, 27.81g/6h (DH 17a). Has been brushed in the past and now toned to red-brown, minor nicks to obverse rim, otherwise about extremely fine and very rare £350-400
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Skidmore’s Halfpenny, 1795, church, rev. dar cypher, aplustre and rudder, edge plain, 11.55g/6h (DH 310b). Virtually as struck with original colour and reflective fields £150-200
Hammer Price: £170
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Skidmore’s mule Penny, church, rev. cap of Liberty on pole, sheffield constitutional society, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 23.68g/6h (DH 18a). Minor rim fault on reverse at 12 o’clock, otherwise extremely fine and patinated, extremely rare £500-600
Hammer Price: £440
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Skidmore’s mule Penny, from the same obv. die as previous, rev. pm co cypher, edge plain, 27.47g/6h (DH 19). Small stain on obverse and a minor rim fault on reverse at 4 o’clock, otherwise virtually as struck, reverse with full original colour, very rare £500-600
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Skidmore’s mule Penny, from the same obv. die as previous, rev. lion rampant and shield, edge plain, 27.21g/6h (DH 20). Weakly struck in centre of reverse, otherwise about extremely fine and extremely rare £350-400
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Hackney, David Rebello, Skidmore’s mule Penny, 1795, dar cypher, rev. bust of William III right,, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 27.58g/6h (DH 22). Extremely fine, obverse with almost full original colour, reverse lightly patinated and with a spot below bust, very rare £400-500
Hammer Price: £360
Middlesex [Greater Metropolitan area], Isleworth, Skidmore’s Clerkenwell series, Penny, All Saints Church, rev. fictitious arms, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.74g/12h (DH 157). Virtually as struck with full original colour £150-200
Hammer Price: £160
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Denton’s ‘Swan’ Penny, 1797, swan with partly expanded wings swimming left, rev. arms of the county of Middlesex, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.30g/6h (DH 174; Bell, ST p.127, this piece). Virtually as struck with attractive chocolate patina, very rare £600-800
Hammer Price: £1,250
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Kempson’s London Buildings, Pennies (5), type 1 with rev. die london promissory penny token (4), obvs. Guildhall, 25.38g/12h (DH 42), Mansion House, 21.54g/6h (DH 43), Somerset House (2), 26.14g/6h (DH 44). 25.50g/6h (DH 44a); type 2 with rev. die london penny token, obv. St James’s Palace, 22.06g/6h (DH 58) [5]. First two practically as struck with full original colour, last very fine, others extremely fine with much original colour, edge...
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Skidmore’s Churches, Halfpence (2), Friday Street, St Matthew’s, 11.00g/12h (DH 585), Holborn, St Andrew’s, 12.64g/12h (DH 595); Skidmore’s Gates, Halfpenny, Bridge Gate, 11.66g/1h (DH 651); metropolitan middlesex, Willesden, Skidmore’s Churches, Halfpenny, Willesden, 13.38g/5h (DH 643) [4]. Second and last about extremely fine, last very rare, others extremely fine and better, first with almost full original colour £80-100
Hammer Price: £90
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Halfpence (2), pig, rev. Britannia, 11.78g/6h (DH 843a), Tree of Liberty, rev. caduceus, 12.36g/6h (DH 884); Spence’s mule Farthing, bust left, rev. pig, 4.06g/6h (DH 1081) [3]. Second perhaps brass and once plated, fine, others extremely fine with original colour but first with collectors’ number ‘1291’ inked on reverse £80-100
Hammer Price: £55
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Halfpence (2), bust of John Horne Tooke right, revs. Sessions House, Old Bailey, edges plain, in copper, 14.28g/6h, in white metal, 9.28g/12h (both DH 878; BHM 380) [2]. Copper extremely fine with some original colour, white metal nearly so, rare £120-150
Hammer Price: £75
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Farthing, cat seated left, rev. hand holding open book, pig’s meat, 3.46g/6h (DH 1091). From clashed dies with ghosting of book on obverse, some legend weak, otherwise extremely fine with a hint of original colour, rare £200-250
Hammer Price: £250
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Spence’s mule Farthing, in white metal, from the same dies as previous, edge plain, thick flan, 4.61g/11h (DH 1091, not listed in this metal). About extremely fine and of the highest rarity £300-400
Hammer Price: £460
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Thomas Spence, Halfpenny, countermarked partnership in land/the land is ours you rogues, 7.50g/12h (on DH Middlesex 676); George III, Penny, 1797, obv. countermarked no landlords you fools spence’s plan you rogues, 26.98g; Halfpence (5), countermarked liberty/liberty, 6.49g (on George III imitation Halfpenny), partnership in land/or for ever starvation, 7.44g, spence’s plan full bellies/& every blessing, 7.03g, spence’s plan full bellies/and...
Hammer Price: £850
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Westwood’s Collectors’ Halfpenny, 1796, connoisseur smoking pipe, seated at table spread with medals, elderly figure placing a fool’s cap on his head, rev. ass and mule standing facing, be assured friend mule, etc, edge any sum given for scarce original impressions, 10.84g/6h (DH 298). Usual die flaw on reverse, obverse extremely fine, reverse nearly so but some surface defects in field, rare £400-500
Hammer Price: £620
Middlesex [Specious and Collectors’], Westwood’s Collectors’ Halfpenny, 1796, from the same obv. die as previous, rev. two boys racing on asses to right, edge any sum given for scarce original impressions, 11.41g/12h (DH 299). Flaw commencing under date, extremely fine and patinated, rare £400-500
Hammer Price: £750
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Kempson’s Admiral Gardner Election token, 1796, Gardner in naval uniform standing in front of a cannon, rev. obelisk at left, fox standing on three blocks, no majesty but that of the people, etc, 21.80g/6h (DH 226; BHM 411). Extremely fine with virtually full original colour £100-150
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Kempson’s Thomas Erskine Halfpenny, 7.44g/6h (DH 1010); Uncertain manufacturers, Thomas Hardy Halfpenny, 1794, 7.79g/12h, John Horne Tooke, Halfpence, 1794 (2), 9.51g/12h (DH 1044a), 8.34g/6h (DH 1045a), ‘Pro Bono Publico’ Farthing, 2.38g/6h (DH 1169) [5]. Last fine, others very fine and better £35-45
Hammer Price: £20
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Kempson’s Erskine and Gibbs Proof Halfpenny, 1794, in silver, two barristers standing holding label inscribed bill of rights, magna charta above, rev. legend in 9 lines, edge engrailed, 10.26g/12h (DH 1011). Extremely fine and richly toned £250-300
£250–£300
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Skidmore’s Penny for the Centenary of the Revolution [using the rev. die by C. James], bust of William III right without border, rev. Britannia seated left, edge plain, 23.36g/6h (DH 198; Woolf 75:4; BHM 284; D & W 173/559). Minor edge nicks, good fine, very rare £90-120
Hammer Price: £60
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Skidmore’s Penny for the Centenary of the Revolution, bust of William III within border, rev. lion rampant supporting arms, edge plain, 23.00g/6h (DH 199; Woolf 75:5; BHM 285; D & W 173/560). Extremely fine with much original colour £120-150
Hammer Price: £150
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Thomas Paine, 1793, a white metal medal, unsigned [possibly by W. Mainwaring], bust right, rev. man standing, regarding a mountain at right, on which crouches a mouse, two other figures at left, 33mm, 11.92g/12h (DH 208; BHM 365; E 851). Minor surface marks and tin pest on rims, otherwise about very fine, rare £250-300
Hammer Price: £240
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Thomas Paine, 1793, a white metal medal, unsigned, man hanging from tree, a tree is known by its fruit…, i die for this damn'd book in speech bubble, rev. may the tree of liberty exist to bear tommy's last friend, 32mm, 10.54g/12h (DH 209; BHM 366). An early strike without the obverse die flaws, trifling surface marks, otherwise extremely fine and retaining much original brilliance, very rare £1,200-1,500
Hammer Price: £1,200
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Buck Society, a copper ticket by J. Westwood, deer standing left, tail pointing downwards, rev. plough, industry produceth wealth, handle to in, 36mm, 20.72g/12h (DH 230; D & W 152/393). Light surface marks, otherwise extremely fine, bronzed, rare £250-300
Hammer Price: £260
Middlesex [Medallic and other series], Buck Society, a silver ticket by J. Westwood, deer standing left, tail pointing outwards, rev. plough, industry produceth wealth, handle below in, 37mm, 17.80g/12h (DH 231; D & W 152/391). Scratched in obverse field, otherwise fine and toned, very rare £120-150
Hammer Price: £130
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