17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Quentin Archer

Middlesex (Metropolitan), Drury Lane, James Partrich, Farthing, 1657, 0.52g/6h (N 8699; D 877B); T: Peeters, Farthing, 1.26g/1h (N 8700; BW. 879); I.A.S. at the sparosnest, Farthing, 1.02g/7h (N 8706, this piece; BW. 882); Will: Wright, Halfpenny, 1.74g/12h (N 8629, this piece; BW. 887) [4]. N 8699 fair, others fine to nearly very fine, all rare, N 8699 extremely so £90-£120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, 17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Quentin Archer.

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Provenance: N 8629 F. Pridmore Collection, Norweb Collection, Spink Auction 212, 28-9 March 2012, lot 664 (part) [from Baldwin]; N 8699 bt N.A. Clark May 2008; N 8700 W.H. Pheatt Collection, Spink Auction 208, 22-3 June 2011, lot 841 (part); N 8706 R.A. Nott Collection, Norweb Collection, Spink Auction 212, 28-9 March 2012, lot 671 (part).

N 8629 was issued from Drury Lane at the “Corner of Blackmor Street”. It is one of only two tokens to mention Blackmoor Street, the other being the exceedingly rare N 8628, the Norweb example of which was donated to the British Museum. In an article in the Newsletter for the London Topographical Society (No. 68, May 2009) R.H. Thompson proposed that Blackmoor Street gained its name from the establishment of Edward Lovell, tobacconist, called the Two Black Moors, from which N 8628 was issued