British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Gloucester, Gloucester Cab Co, uniface brass, 1 mile, ep, 26.5mm, 6.94g; Gloster Carriage & Wheel Works, brass, by W. Smith, un-numbered, rev. w smith new meeting st birmingham die sinker engraver, etc, ep, 36.5mm, 9.13g/12h; Gloster CISL, uniface copper One Pound, value in centre, eg, 23mm, 3.21g, tin bracteate Shilling, 24.5mm, 1.47g, tin bracteate Sixpence, 21mm, 0.86g, tin bracteate Threepence, 21mm, 1.46g, tin bracteate Pennies (2), large d in value, 22mm, 0.85g, small d in value, 22mm, 1.21g, tin bracteate Halfpenny, 22mm, 1.30g, yellow aluminium Large Loaf, ep, 26mm, 1.25g/12h, brown aluminium M[ilk] C[arton], ep, 26mm, 1.22g/12h; G[loucester] CS Mutual Club, brass Sixpence, value both sides, ep, 21mm, 2.79g/12h; Gloucester & Severnside CSL, blue fibre 1 Milk Token, ep, 25mm, 0.94g/12h; Gloucester Soup Kitchen, uniface brass 1 Quart, eg, 25mm, 4.81g; Gloucester Wagon Co, uniface oval brass, dinner, stamped 215, ep, 38mm, 7.57g; un-named issuer [probably Co-Op], copper Half-Sovereign by Ardill, grocer & baker etc, eg, 19mm, 2.08g/12h [15]. Fine to very fine, a few better, second, fourteenth and penultimate pierced (£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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Provenance:
*First bt R. Sharman
Second bt R. Hayes August 1994
Fourth, seventh and ninth bt J. Whitmore November 1984
Fifth bt J. Whitmore November 1992
Sixth bt F. Schwer October 1984
Tenth bt Newman June 1986
Eleventh gift of L. Riches February 1998
Twelfth bt J. Whitmore November 1985
Fourteenth bt L. Bennett July 1984.

The Gloucester Wagon Co, established in April 1860, was renamed as the Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co Ltd. Further details of the company, which provided the bulk of the rolling stock for London Underground in the first half of the 20th century and which was taken over by Babcock in 1986, are sold with the lot