David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Hamer, S.H., offprints from articles and lectures given to the Halifax Antiquarian Society, 1904-1920. 8vo, white paper, in red card folder: Private Tokens, The Issuers and Die-Sinkers, some page uncut (Manville 630); Tokens Issued by Overseers of the Poor and the Workhouse Authorities; Bradford Workhouse Tokens, extensively annotated by Hamer, and two pencil notes in his hand loosely inserted; Tokens, some pages uncut; The Tokens of Lichfield; Tokens Illustrative of Spinning and Weaving, some pages uncut (Manville 798); together with Hamer Collection of Halifax Tokens (17th Century), a list of the Halifax tokens bought by members of the Society at the Hamer sale in 1930 and presented to Bank Field Museum in his memory £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Literature.

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Provenance: Ex libris P.J. Preston-Morley, Part II, DNW Auction 54, 19 June 2002, lot 1037