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Metropolitan Middlesex, Gray’s Inn Gate, William Place, Halfpenny, for post letters, 2.34g/12h (N 8045, this piece; BW. 1237). Obverse edge nick at 2 o’clock, otherwise about very fine, very rare £300-400
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, 17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Quentin Archer.
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Provenance: Norweb Collection, Spink Auction 212, 28-9 March 2012, lot 604 [from Baldwin].
William Place († by 1678), stationer, St Andrew Holborn, appointed to receive letters in Holborn for His Majesty’s Post Office, 1661, 1663, seller of lozenges and dentifrice, 1662
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