British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Berkshire, Blewbury, S[amuel] Huggins (UFS 1070), Newbury, [James] Roake, 1839 (UFS 3710); Herefordshire, Ledbury, W. Taylor (UFS 1890), Ross on Wye, Pearce (UFS 4480); Kent, Woolwich, Gregory Browne (UFS 5160); London, Bishopsgate, Isaac Sparrow, 1823 (UFS 2840), Holborn, Mr [David] Lewis (UFS 2680, copper, edge grained); Soho, East India Co (UFS 2500B); Oxfordshire, Nettlebed, [William] Champion, 1835 (UFS 3700); Worcestershire, Worcester, Co-Operative Co Ltd (UFS 5240) [10]. Ross about fine, Nettlebed fine, others very fine or better (£60-80)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tokens from the Collection formed by the late Barry Greenaway.

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Samuel Huggins (b. 1796), farmer and gunsmith, † by 1876; James White Roake (b. 1796), son of Jacob Roake, linen draper and hosier, Bartholomew street; W. Taylor, grocer, Post Office; Pearce, grocer and ironmonger, Broad street; David K. Lewis, inventor of the Lewisian system of writing, 104 Holborn, was born at Ebley, near Stroud; William Samuel Champion (b. 1813), grocer and ironmonger