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![Co Dublin, Dublin, ‘Pro Bono’ ‘Shillings’, 1804 (2), 4.75g/12h (D 8), 4.50g/12h (D 9) [2]. Second very fine and toned, first](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/7d61ec39-ed99-4be6-a02a-ad8e01212df1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 458
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, Albion Ltd, brass, stamped 216, 30mm; Davidson & Co Ltd, Sirocco Works, uniface brass (3), stamped 195, 824, 2954, all 33mm (Woodside DN B6ff); Gallaher Ltd, Dining Rooms, brass Penny and Halfpenny, 31 and 26mm (Woodside AN B24ff; cf. ‘Dublinia’ 398); Marsh & Co Ltd, brass (2, different), both 26mm (Woodside AN B51 and var.); Hugh J. Scott & Co (Belfast) Ltd, uniface brass (2), one stamped 98, both 32mm [10]. About very fine and better, three pierced as issued £120-£150 --- Provenance: First and eighth bt Format 1995; second and fourth bt N. Clarke 2008; third bt 2007; fifth bt 2016; sixth bt R. Hayes 1996; seventh bt Format 1993; ninth bt S. Byrne 1989
Lot 459
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, Armour & Co Ltd, brass, stamped 13, 26mm (Woodside AN B87, this piece); Belfast Corporation, uniface brass (3), Cleansing, stamped 243, Works, stamped 276, both 38mm, C.S.D., oval, stamped 9, 41 x 29mm (given by Woodside to Belfast City Surveying Dept); Lagan Construction Co, uniface brass Pay Check, stamped 107, 38mm [5]. First fine, others about very fine and better £40-£50 --- Provenance: First bt N.A. Clark 2010; last three bt 1997
Lot 460
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, Belfast City Tramways, Abercorn Basin and Queen’s Road Terminus, Harland & Wolff Ltd, red, 28mm (Smith 160AL), celluloid Halfpenny, Penny, Twopence (2, different) and Threepence, mostly 25mm (Smith 160AT, AU, AW, AX, AY); Belfast Corporation Transport, celluloid Halfpenny, Penny, Threehalfpence (3), Twopence, Threepence, Fourpences (2, different), Fivepences (4, all different), 22-25mm (Smith 160BA, BC, BE-F, BI, BJ, BP, BQ), cupro-nickel S (7, round [4], heptagonal [3]), cupro-nickel M (3, different) (Smith 160CA, CB, CC, CD, CE) [30]. Very fine and better, first very rare; some in a contemporary Bangor Maid Ice Cream purpose-made holder £90-£120 --- Provenance: First bt 2017
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, B[elfast] C[orporation] T[ransport], Harland & Wolff, aluminium (2), 29](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/07d5c661-1f1b-4c83-bd75-ad8e01211aa2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 461
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, B[elfast] C[orporation] T[ransport], Harland & Wolff, aluminium (2), 29 and 28mm (Smith –); Co CORK, Cork, Cork Electric Tramways & Lighting Co Ltd, red celluloid Penny, 22mm (Smith 280AD), Queenstown, Greek Line, rectangular bracteate tin-plate 2 Shillings, 31mm (Smith –); Co LIMERICK, Limerick, Limerick S[team] S[hip] Co Ltd, uniface zinc, stamped 481, 32mm (Smith –) [5]. Last fine, others very fine, all scarce £40-£50 --- Provenance: First and third bt 2005; second bt 1995; last bt 2014. Limerick Steam Ship Co Ltd, established 1893, subsumed within Hibernian Transport 1969
Lot 462
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, The Belfast Flax & Jute Co Ltd, Owen O’Cork Mills, uniface brass Pennies (2, different), both 32mm (Woodside DN B1); Durham Street Mills, brass (2), edges plain and grained, both 32mm (Woodside AN B18 and var.); W[illiam] Ewart & Son Ltd, Penny Vouchers, 1907 (3), copper (2, one stamped 1618), brass, stamped 5429, all 31mm, Halfpenny Voucher, 1907, brass, 25mm (Woodside AN B21, B21a, B21b, B22A, these pieces) [8]. Fine to very fine, Durham Street Mills better £90-£120 --- Provenance: First bt C.J. Denton 1986; second bt 2019; third bt M. Smith 2000; fourth bt Format 1994; fifth bt E. Szauer 1993; sixth bt C.J. Denton 1988; seventh bt 2006; last bt E. Szauer 1986
Lot 464
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, Cantell & Cochrane, 1902, aluminium, 33mm (Woodside AN B15); Methodist Chapel, Donegal Place, brass, 27mm (Woodside AN B52; Macalister 980); Workman, Clark & Co Ltd, brass Fourpence by Ardill, 25mm, uniface brass, stamped 3572, 36mm (Woodside AN B76-7); Workshops for the Blind, Dining Room, brass Halfpence (3, varieties), all 26mm (Woodside AN B78, 78A); Lisburn, Gracey Bros, uniface brass, stamped 26, 25mm; together with an unidentified brass, stamped j. & w.s., 37, 29mm [9]. First extremely fine, others generally about very fine and better, several scarce £100-£150 --- Provenance: First bt B. Seawright 1989; second bt 2013; third bt 2019; fourth and last bt 2018; fifth and sixth bt 2002; seventh bt R. Hayes 1994; eighth bt 2000
Lot 465
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, Corner House (Six), aluminium Sixpence, copper Threepence and Penny, 24, 26 and 24mm (Woodside AN B16ff); Corner House (Six) Ltd, bronze Penny, 24mm (Woodside AN B16ff); Campbell & Co, uniface nickel, stamped 610); Morgan Bros, brass Shilling, denomination scored through and 2/- stamped on rev., 29mm; [Edward] Polland, uniface brass, stamped 103, 28mm [7]. Last fine, others about very fine and better, sixth very rare £80-£100 --- Provenance: First bt 2008; second bt E. Szauer 1994; third bt 2011; fourth bt S. Byrne 1993; fifth bt S. Byrne 1995; sixth bt 2017; last bt 2016. Campbell & Co, watchmakers; Morgan Bros, fish salesmen, 65 Smithfield; Edward Polland, jeweller
Lot 466
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, Culley’s Canteen, brass Sixpence, Twopences (2, thick and thin flans), Penny, 30, 25 and 20mm (Woodside AN B17ff; DNW 38, 318, this piece); Paper Mill Dining Rooms, brass Halfpenny, 26mm (Woodside AN V2); Springfield Dining Rooms, uniface brass, stamped 295, 30mm [6]. Last fine, others about very fine and better but first with stain on reverse £50-£70 --- Provenance: First DNW Auction 38, 25 November 1998, lot 318 (part); second and third bt R. Hayes 1994; fourth bt R. Hayes 1997; fifth bt M. Eden 1989; last bt 2019. The last was tentatively attributed by the late owner to Mackie’s, Springfield road, Belfast
Lot 469
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, John G. McGee & Co, brass, 31mm (Woodside AN B44; Macalister 978; cf. DNW 134, 348; cf. ‘Dublinia’ 364); Visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to Belfast, 1849, white metal, unsigned, for John McGee, 40mm (Woodside AN B45; W & E 564B.1; BHM 2337); Crystal Palace, 1851, white metal, unsigned, for John McGee, 30mm (Allen C215); Great Industrial Exhibition, Dublin, 1853, white metal, unsigned, for John McGee, 31mm (Woodside AN B46; cf. ‘Dublinia’ 365) [4]. Varied state, a scarce group £50-£70 --- Provenance: First Sotheby Auction, 1-2 October 1987, lot 399 (part); second bt 2006; third bt 1992; last bt 1997. John G. McGee & Co, clothiers and hatters, The Pantechnetheca, 46-8 High street
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, New Nort[h]ern Spinning & Weaving Co Ltd, octagonal brass Halfpenny, 23m](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/e06e7836-fd9c-4009-ae31-ad8e01210769/468x382.jpg)
Lot 470
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, New Nort[h]ern Spinning & Weaving Co Ltd, octagonal brass Halfpenny, 23mm (Woodside AN B57); William Ross & Co, Clonard Mills, brass Pennies (2, different) and Halfpenny, 32 and 26mm (Woodside AN B62, B62a, B62b; W 2472-3; cf. ‘Dublinia’ 482); Y[ork] R[oad] Mill, brass 1, with incuse bear countermark, 35mm (cf. Woodside AN B80) [5]. About very fine, first and last rare £60-£80 --- Provenance: First bt A. Judd 1994; second and fourth bt 1990; third bt 2016; last bt 2014
Lot 472
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Carrickfergus, William Vint & Sons, uniface brass Bread Tickets (3), for a Shilling, Elevenpence and Sixpence, all 31mm (Woodside AN V5-7; cf. DNW 138, 3161) [3]. First fair and pierced, others about very fine, rare £80-£100 --- Provenance: First bt 1996; second bt S. Byrne 1989; last bt E. Szauer 1987
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Lambeg, Lambeg Stores, uniface copper 24 [Pence], 12 [Pence] and 6 [Pence], unifa](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/a7830881-c533-47f3-8eec-ad8e01210389/468x382.jpg)
Lot 473
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Lambeg, Lambeg Stores, uniface copper 24 [Pence], 12 [Pence] and 6 [Pence], uniface brass 1 [Penny], 32, 29, 25 and 25mm (Woodside AN V10-13; W 2497-2500; cf. ‘Dublinia’ 476) [4]. First about very fine, others very fine and better, an attractive set, very rare £120-£150 --- Provenance: First Sotheby Auction, 1-2 October 1987, lot 399 (part); others bt 2009
Lot 477
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Newtownabbey, Whiteabbey Stores, copper Sixpence and Twopence, 31 and 24mm (Woodside AN V22-3; cf. W 2559); Portrush, Whitehouse Store, copper Shilling and Penny, 29 and 22mm (Woodside AN V24-5; W 2560; D & W 340/63) [4]. Very fine, all rare £120-£150 --- Provenance: First bt Format 2001; second bt 2010; third bt Format 1994; last DNW Auction 32, 31 October 1997, lot 118 (part)
Lot 480
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ARMAGH, Armagh, Armagh Flax Spinning Mill, Halfcrowns, 1866 (3), zinc (2) and lead, latter with plain edge, copper Penny, 1866, edge grained, all 33mm (Woodside AR V7, V7a, V10; W 2465; D & W 335/2; cf. ‘Dublinia’ 483); Drumcarine, Drumcarine Stores, brass 2 [Pence], 22mm (Woodside AR V17, this piece; W 2484) [5]. Last two very fine, Drumcarine pierced, others in varied state £100-£150 --- Provenance: First Sotheby Auction, 1-2 October 1987, lot 399 (part); second and third bt Baldwin 1993; fourth bt S. Byrne 1987; last bt E. Szauer 1993
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co DOWN, Castlewellan, Annsborough Stores, brass 6 [Pence] and 2 [Pence], 25 and 22mm (Woods](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/ddada243-13f4-4fe9-a9fd-ad8e0120f800/468x382.jpg)
Lot 481
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co DOWN, Castlewellan, Annsborough Stores, brass 6 [Pence] and 2 [Pence], 25 and 22mm (Woodside DN V12, 13; W 2462); Killyleagh, Shrigley Mills Grocery Store, uniface brass Fourpence and Twopence, uniface white metal Halfpenny, 26, 23 and 20mm (Woodside DN V16, 17, 17a) [5]. Third and fourth fair, others fine, all rare £70-£90 --- Provenance: First bt J. Whitmore 1996; second bt 2017; third bt S. Byrne 1989; fourth bt S. Byrne 1993; last bt A. Judd 1994
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co DUBLIN, Dublin, [The Big Tree Tavern], M[ichael] McCann, brass Twopence by Parkes [1865-7](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/34688330-ecf9-4e59-914e-ad8e0120f15e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 486
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co DUBLIN, Dublin, [The Big Tree Tavern], M[ichael] McCann, brass Twopence by Parkes [1865-72], 24mm (Rice 246; Todd 169); The Fingal House, Free Drink/Rain Check, brass, 29mm [2]. First excavated but rare, second very fine £40-£50 --- Provenance: First F.E. Dixon Collection, bt E. Szauer 1989; second bt 2016. Michael McCann, innholder, The Big Tree Tavern, 1A Dorset street lower, 1856-63, then Jane McCann 1864-5. See Rice p.66 for a possible explanation of the timeline for the striking and issuing of McCann tokens
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co DUBLIN, Dublin, C[hristopher] B[rady], H[addington] R[oad], uniface brass Twopence, 27mm](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/9e84806d-6ff0-41ee-afb1-ad8e0120efe8/468x382.jpg)
Lot 487
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co DUBLIN, Dublin, C[hristopher] B[rady], H[addington] R[oad], uniface brass Twopence, 27mm (Rice 13; Todd 9); J.B., uniface brass Twopence, 24mm (Rice 17; Todd 12) [2]. Fine, rare £60-£80 --- Provenance: First bt A. Judd 1993; second bt A. Judd 1989. Christopher Brady, grocer, 2 Haddington road, 1853-78
Lot 490
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co DUBLIN, Dublin, Coffee Palace, Coffee Stands, oval brass Twopence, brass Penny, both by Parkes, 26 x 21mm and 24mm (Rice 85, 87, latter Supplement, this piece illustrated; Woodside 49; Todd 50, –) [2]. Very fine, rare £60-£80 --- Provenance: First bt R. Hayes 1996; second bt M. Eden 1990. The Coffee Palace, 16 Townsend street and North Wall, fl. 1892-8
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co DUBLIN, Inchicore, G[reat] S[outhern] & W[estern] R[ailway], Inchicore Works, uniface rec](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/f46dfb7e-c8b5-4ab8-9cb7-ad8e0120d5ab/468x382.jpg)
Lot 504
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co DUBLIN, Inchicore, G[reat] S[outhern] & W[estern] R[ailway], Inchicore Works, uniface rectangular brass Pay, stamped 145, bracteate rectangular white metal Pay Check, stamped 1041, both 40 x 27mm; uniface aluminium Pay Check, stamped D30 SE, 33 x 26mm [3]. First extremely fine, second good fine, last very fine, all scarce £50-£70 --- Provenance: Second bt E. Szauer; others bt 2015. Inchicore railway works, founded by the Great Southern & Western Railway in 1846 and located two miles south of Dublin’s Heuston station, became the major engineering centre for railways in Ireland
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co LONDONDERRY, Londonderry, S.M. K[ennedy] & Co, uniface brass 1/6 (2, one toned), 1/4, all](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/132a7d47-b0b2-4322-8acc-ad8e0120cc51/468x382.jpg)
Lot 510
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co LONDONDERRY, Londonderry, S.M. K[ennedy] & Co, uniface brass 1/6 (2, one toned), 1/4, all 25mm; Londonderry Bottle Co, zinc One Pint, 30mm; Londonderry Port & Harbour, One Load of Ballast, brass, 25mm (cf. ‘Dublinia’ 484) [5]. Fourth fine, others very fine, last rare £80-£100 --- Provenance: First two bt 2016; third bt A. Judd 2016; fourth bt M. Eden 1994; last bt 2002. S.M. Kennedy & Co, shirt manufacturers
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co TYRONE, Coalisland, [Henry Wilson, Roan Spinning Mill], zinc Shilling and copper Penny, b](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/744611ef-20a2-4ae3-86fa-ad8e0120ca8b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 511
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co TYRONE, Coalisland, [Henry Wilson, Roan Spinning Mill], zinc Shilling and copper Penny, both 1863, 25 and 32mm (Woodside TY V4, V6; W 2554, 2556; D & W 340/66; cf. ‘Dublinia’ 476); Lisdourt, G.V. Stewart, copper Halfcrown, Shilling and Penny, all 1867, 31, 31 and 25mm (Woodside TY V7-9; W 2502-4; D & W 337/22-4; cf. ‘Dublinia’ 488) [5]. About very fine and better £60-£80 --- Provenance: First bt M. Eden 1994; others bt C.J. Denton 1986
Lot 513
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co WATERFORD, Portlaw, Mayfield Factory, Malcolmson Bros, card Halfcrown and Shilling, 1854, signatures of C. Reynett (W 2505-6) [2]. Varied state £90-£120 --- Provenance: First bt Baldwin 1989; second bt E. Szauer 1988. The Reynett family were well-established in Portlaw and the signatory was obviously employed by the Malcolmsons
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, G[reat] S[outhern] R[ailways], uniface pewter, stamped 201, 32mm; G[reat] S[outhern] R[ailwa](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/51a07075-5594-49d5-9d20-ad8e0120c6c1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 515
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, G[reat] S[outhern] R[ailways], uniface pewter, stamped 201, 32mm; G[reat] S[outhern] R[ailways], B, uniface brass (5), stamped 1021, 1024, 1033, 1037, 1057, all 33mm [6]. Fine to very fine £50-£70 --- Provenance: First bt B. Seawright 1990; others bt 2014-15. The Great Southern Railways Company (usually known as Great Southern Railways, or GSR), was headquartered at Kingsbridge (now Dublin Heuston station). It owned and operated all railways that lay wholly within the Free State from 1925 to 1945
![Tickets and Passes, Travelling Exhibitions: T[homas] Corry (3), ireland its scenery music & antiquities, etc, round brass and](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/9c9887be-a18c-466e-b266-ad8e0120c0b2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 519
Tickets and Passes, Travelling Exhibitions: T[homas] Corry (3), ireland its scenery music & antiquities, etc, round brass and white metal, both 27mm, 6.74g, 4.95g (W 1053; D & W 55/85, 55/86), oval brass, 51 x 31mm, 10.90g (W 1054; D & W 55/87) [3]. Last very fine, others good fine £100-£150 --- Provenance: First bt S. Byrne 1993; second bt N.B. Todd 2004; *last bt E. Szauer 1992. Thomas Charles Stuart Corry (1825-96), descended from a family from Rockcorry, co Monaghan; educ. Royal Belfast Academical Institution; practised as a surgeon, specialising in obstetrics, Belfast; his dioramas of Ireland, which opened on Boxing Day 1864, played to large gatherings in Ireland, England, Scotland, the USA and Australia over the next 20 or so years, the shows featuring ‘Irish’ songs, recitations and dancing
Lot 528
17th Century Tokens, Co DOWN, Bangor, James Clealand, Penny, 1.02g/6h (N –; M 56; BW. 74); Co MEATH, Trim, Gideon Hayne, Penny, 2.42g/12h (N 6348; M 476; BW. 715); Co MONAGHAN, Carrickmacross, W[illiam] B[arton], Penny, when yov please ile chainge thes, 3.66g/12h (N –; M 98; BW. 142); Co TIPPERARY, Cashel, Edward Mihill, Penny, 1.65g/12h (N –; M 103; BW. 150) [4]. Varied state, first rare £50-£70 --- Provenance: N 6348 bt M.J. Dickinson 1987; BW. 74 bt S.H. Monks December 2005; BW. 142 bt May 2006; BW. 150 bt Seaby 1983
Lot 531
17th Century Tokens, Co KILKENNY, Kilkenny, Edward Roth, Penny, 1663, 1.13g/6h (N 6292; M 365a; BW. 524); Co LIMERICK, Limerick, City Farthing, 1658, 0.73g/6h (N 6307; M 387; BW. 563), Butchers’ Guild, Halfpenny, 1679, 4.12g/12h (N 6310; M 388; BW. 565), Tho. Linch, Halfpenny, 1679, 2.84g/3h (N 6312; M 392; BW. 574), Ed Wight, Halfpenny, 1677, 2.08g/3h (N 6315; M 396a; BW. 580) [5]. First about fine, others in varied state £90-£120 --- Provenance: N 6292 bt S.H. Monks July 1995; N 6307 bt Seaby 1985; N 6310 T.S. Agnew Collection, Sotheby Auction, 1-2 October 1987, lot 149 (part), bt M.J. Dickinson 1990; N 6312 bt S.H. Monks March 1995; N 6315 bt S.H. Monks September 1995
Lot 538
18th Century Tokens, LANCASHIRE, Lancaster, Daniel Eccleston, Halfpenny, 1794, 11.14g/6h (DH 58); LANARKSHIRE, Glasgow, Thomas Finlayson, Farthing 2.11g/12h (DH 30); together with other miscellaneous 18th century tokens (45) [47]. First extremely fine with original colour, second very fine, others in varied state £150-£200
Lot 539
18th Century Tokens, LONDON, Bishopsgate, Schooling & Son, Halfpenny, 1795, 11.19g/6h (DH 474); SOMERSET, Bath, Francis Heath, Farthing, 1794, 4.54g/6h (DH 115); WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham, William Lutwyche, Halfpenny, 14.37g/6h (DH 219b); together with miscellaneous later tokens (10), coins (4) [17]. First three about extremely fine, third with original colour, others fine and better £50-£70
![17th Century Tokens, Salisbury, E[dward] F[aulconer], Farthing, 0.82g/9h (N –; D –). Crude style perhaps indicative of local](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/0b7f5985-5565-4a96-8ad4-ad8e0123c79e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 54
17th Century Tokens, Salisbury, E[dward] F[aulconer], Farthing, 0.82g/9h (N –; D –). Crude style perhaps indicative of local fabrication, outer legends mostly missing but centres about fine, of the highest rarity; first published in 2009 £200-£300 --- Provenance: D. Sadler Collection, DNW Auction T7, 7 October 2009, lot 285 [from A. Cherry]. This intriguing piece, with its unusual coat of arms and large central initials E.M.F., has most of the legends missing, but the word sarvm is visible on the reverse
Lot 549
19th Century Tokens, NORTHUMBERLAND, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Alexander Kelty, Shilling, 1812, 4.20g/6h (D 8); WILTSHIRE, Marlborough, Stephen King, John Gosling, William Tanner and Robert Griffiths, Sixpence, 1811, 1.61g/12h (D 5); together with evasion Halfpence (2), Duke of Bedford (A 93), georgivs ii rex/britan nia 1747 (A –) [4]. First about extremely fine and toned, others fine £80-£100
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, LANCASHIRE, [Burnley], U[nited] I[rish] L[eague] C[lub], brass Twopence, 17mm; YORKSHIRE, Ba](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/8d7a33a6-0f46-4cda-ab97-ad8e01207114/468x382.jpg)
Lot 557
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, LANCASHIRE, [Burnley], U[nited] I[rish] L[eague] C[lub], brass Twopence, 17mm; YORKSHIRE, Batley, United Irish League, Michael Davitt Temperance Branch, brass Penny by Ardill, 25mm, Leeds, O’Brien-Davitt Bank Club, brass Penny, 26mm [3]. Very fine, all very rare £120-£150 --- Provenance: B. Woodside Collection [first from a Burnley resident c. 2000; others bt 2015]
Lot 560
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, LONDON, Houndsditch, a George III Halfpenny, 1806, rev. countermarked davis wine & brandy merchant 46 hounsditch london (Scott 22.12b); STAFFORDSHIRE, Newcastle-under-Lyme, ISG, F. Dixon (NW 7060); together with other miscellaneous copper tokens (18), from Dublin, Newark, Camberwell, Norwich, Manchester, etc, and coins (3, two in silver) [23]. First coin and countermark very fine, others in varied state, one silver coin mounted £100-£150
Lot 569
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Engraved tokens (3), a George II Shilling, 1758, obv. legend planed off and engraved (Eliz: Land Born Nov. 6, 1785), 5.87g; a Halfpenny-sized blank, engraved S * F London 1767), rev. man standing left in checkered clothing (perhaps a convict), holding baton, 6.51g; a George III Halfpenny [1770-5], rev. planed flat and engraved (Richd. Potter Married to Jane Boner 2 Feb 1769), 9.04g [3]. Varied state, first with ring mount; research potential £80-£100
Lot 574
HAMPSHIRE, Bisley, National Rifle Association, Life Member’s Pass, ivory, bowman and rifleman standing, rev. legend, named (Honble. Gerald Walsh, 1895) ink script below (W. Mackinnon Col, Sec. N.R.A.), 45mm, 9.30g (W 1508). Extremely fine, rare; pierced for suspension £90-£120 --- Gerald Walsh (1864-1925), son of Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite, and Lady Katherine Emily Mary Somerset; General Inspector, Local Government Board; lived at Melton Mowbray. Col. William Mackinnon (†1899), Hythe School of Musketry, first secretary of the National Rifle Association 1890-8. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
Lot 575
A group of 12 Tickets and Passes awarded to Lord Cheylesmore who, as Herbert Eaton, was a pioneer collector of war medals and decorations in the 1860s and 1870s and later Chairman of the National Rifle Association: HAMPSHIRE, Bisley, National Rifle Association, stained red ivory, standing archer and rifleman, rev. pass everywhere, named (Lord Cheylesmore), also signed by C.R. Crosse, Lt. Col., Sec. N.R.A., 42mm, 6.76g; HAMPSHIRE, Bisley, National Rifle Association, Council, stained red ivory, back signed (C.R. Crosse, Lt. Col., Sec. N.R.A.), 43mm, 8.51g; LONDON, Islington, Royal Military Tournament, 1898, Patron’s Box, uniface stained bone, lion passant guardant, back painted 1898, 50 x 42mm, 7.44g; LONDON, Islington, Royal Military Tournament, 1899, Patron’s Box, uniface stained bone, monogram on cruciform arrangement, back with no.28 and painted 1899, 50mm, 11.16g; LONDON, Islington, Royal Military Tournament, 1900, Patron’s Box, uniface stained bone, Welsh plumes at centre of cross, back with no.10 and painted 1900, 65 x 62mm, 9.92g; LONDON, Islington, Royal Military Tournament, 1902, Patron’s Box, uniface stained bone, crowned E VII R monogram on shamrock-shaped cross, back with no.21 and painted 1902, 62mm, 12.70g; LONDON, Islington, Royal Military Tournament, 1903, Patron’s Box, uniface stained bone, central star surrounded by Garter, back with no.14, 40mm, 6.03g; LONDON, Islington, Royal Military Tournament, 1904, Patron’s Box, uniface stained lozenge-shaped bone, crowned monogram, back with no.15 and painted 1904, 62 x 45mm, 9.59g; LONDON, Islington, Royal Naval & Military Tournament, 1905, Patron’s Box, uniface stained bone, sailing ship, back with no.11 and painted 1905, 53mm, 10.21g; LONDON, Kensington Olympia, Royal Naval & Military Tournament, 1907, Reception Committee, star-shaped bone, back named (4, Major-General Lord Cheylesmore, C.V.O.), 38mm, 1.80g; LONDON, Kensington Olympia, Royal Naval & Military Tournament, 1909, Reception Committee, lozenge-shaped bone, back named (21, Major-General Lord Cheylesmore, C.V.O.), 39 x 35mm, 5.03g; LONDON, Kensington Olympia, Royal Naval & Military Tournament, 1910, Reception Committee, shield-shaped bone, back named (21, Major General Lord Cheylesmore, C.V.O.), 46 x 37mm, 4.42g [12]. First very fine, second fine and with chip to bottom, both pierced for suspension, others extremely fine and with original cords for wear £200-£400 --- Major-General Herbert Francis Eaton, 3rd Baron Cheylesmore, GBE, KCMG, KCVO (1848-1925), youngest son of Henry Eaton, 1st Baron (1816-91), who was head of the family firm, William Eaton & Sons, china silk brokers, and MP for Coventry 1865-87. Henry Eaton, a significant art collector who acquired a large tranche of paintings from the studio sale of Sir Edwin Landseer in 1874, owned that artist’s Monarch of the Glen, now in the National Galleries of Scotland; at the Christie’s sale of Henry Eaton’s paintings in 1892 it realised £7,245, which remained the highest price paid for a work by Landseer for over 70 years. Herbert Eaton was educated at Eton, where he rowed in Warre’s House Four and shot for the Ashburton Shield in 1866. In 1868 he was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, for whose 1st battalion he rowed in the 1877 Grand Challenge Cup at Henley. In 1884 he was given command of the National Rifle Association camp, then still at Wimbledon Common, and oversaw its move to Bisley, close to the Guards camp at Pirbright, in 1889-90. When his father inherited the baronetcy in 1887 he had to give up his parliamentary seat and Herbert, who stood for it in the ensuing by-election, failed to win it by a mere 16 votes. By 1891 he was in command of the Grenadier’s 2nd battalion which, according to an account in Vanity Fair, he had “just brought back from a well-deserved, if enforced, holiday in Bermuda” to which it had been sent following ‘an act of insubordination’. Herbert used his time in Bermuda well, meeting and later marrying an American heiress, Elizabeth Richardson French (1861-1945). Appointed Major-General in 1899, Cheylesmore succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his surviving brother in July 1902, taking his seat in the House of Lords, for whom he shot against the House of Commons in their annual marksmanship competition. He became an alderman of Westminster City Council and served as Mayor of Westminster 1905-6, subsequently becoming chairman of London County Council in April 1912, the year after he and his wife had purchased Cooper’s Hill, Runnymede. At the outbreak of the Great War Cheylesmore was appointed commandant of the School of Musketry at Bisley, which was to train over 14,000 officers, NCOs and civilians during the conflict. At the same time he presided over several courts-martial, most notably that of the German spy Carl Hans Lody, aka Charles Inglis, whose movements in Scotland and Ireland in the first two months of the War had attracted the attention of MI5. In his trial, at the end of October 1914, Lody did not attempt to deny that he was a German spy. His bearing in court was widely praised by the press and police, but nevertheless he was convicted and sentenced to death after a 3-day hearing. Four days later, on 6 November 1914, Lody was shot at dawn by a firing squad at the Tower of London in the first execution there for 167 years. Cheylesmore was honoured with the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire on 8 June 1925, but died a few weeks later, on 29 July 1925, at Englefield Green Hospital, Berkshire, as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash, being the first peer of the realm to suffer such a fate in Britain. He is buried in a mausoleum in Highgate Cemetery and commemorated by a monument by Sir Edwin Lutyens in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London. His phenomenally important collection of military and naval medals, which included no fewer than seven VCs and over 150 Naval General Service medals, which had been on public display in 23 display cases at the United Services Museum in Whitehall since Cheylesmore’s term as Mayor of Westminster, was sold over three days in July 1930. According to the cataloguer Douglas Glendining, the collection was largely formed prior to 1880, when the well-known private catalogue of it was produced. Cheylesmore certainly availed himself of the opportunity of acquiring pieces from the collections of his contemporaries, including Colonel Murray, Lawson Whalley and Edward Hyde Greg, dispersed in the 1870s and early 1880s; doubtless many others were, as Mr Glendining wrote, bought by Cheylesmore to save them from an untimely end in the melting pot. Lt-Col Charles Robert Crosse, CMG, MVO (1851-1921), Royal West Kent Regt, secretary of the National Rifle Association 1898-1920. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
Lot 580
LONDON, Covent Garden, Theatre Royal, First Theatre, 1796, copper, covent garden around box 1796, 27mm, 5.52g (W 121; D & W 12/122); Second Theatre, 1809, uniface copper, new theatre covent garden and date around central hole, 34mm, 13.47g (W 129, this piece illustrated); O.P. [Old Price] Riots, 1809, brass (4, three plated), draped bust of John Kemble wearing fool’s cap, trumpet and rattle below, oh my head aitches, etc, revs. o p, john bull’s jubilee, etc around, all 25mm, 4.17g, 4.08g (both W 169; D & W 17/187), 4.39g, 4.36g (both W 171) [6]. Second fine, others about very fine and better; two O.P. pieces pierced for suspension £80-£100 --- Provenance: W.J. McKivor Collection, additionally: all except first and last D.M. Young Collection, DNW Auction 160, 5 June 2019, lot 1164 (part) [second from S.H. Monks March 2009, third from J. Whitmore November 2003, fourth from L. McCarthy November 2002, fifth from H. Simmons October 2005]
Lot 585
LONDON, Harley Street, Quartett Society, ivory, honour to beethoven quartett society around 41, rev. sr, 37mm, 4.38g (W –; cf. Baldwin 61, 513). Very fine, rare £140-£180 --- The Quartett Society was founded in 1845 by Thomas Alsager (1779-1846), co-owner of The Times. Based at the Beethoven Rooms, 76 Harley street, the first ever performance of a complete cycle of Beethoven quartets was performed over a period of two months from mid-April to mid-June and repeated each year from 1846 to 1851. Sold with further background information. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
Lot 599
Davis, W.J., The Nineteenth Century Token Coinage, London, 1904, xlvii + 277pp, 33 fine plates, fully interleaved in 2 volumes, copy no.19 (Manville 623) [2]. Publisher’s brown quarter morocco, gilt, t.e.g.; spines rubbed and some foxing to endpapers, otherwise internally very fine and fresh, one of the most attractive copies available to commerce and with a fine Yorkshire pedigree £300-£500 --- Provenance: Ex libris Samuel Henry Hamer, Halifax, Glendining Auction, 26-8 November 1930, lot 769 (part), with his bookplates; James Digby Firth, Headingley, with his bookplates; John Akins. It is believed that most (if not all) of the first 20 copies were the fully interleaved editions, of which several survive. A newspaper cutting announcing the death of the Manchester collector and author D.T. Batty tipped-in opposite his image, between pages 90 and 91
Lot 62
17th Century Tokens, Tinhead, John Berry, Farthings (4), 1651 (3), reads fo, 1.05g/6h (dies of N 5601, obv. in unaltered state [for another in lesser quality cf. Shuttlewood Sale, 701]; BW. –), reads of over fo, 1.09g/6h (N 5601; BW. 247), reads of, 0.95g/6h (N 5602; BW. 247), 1668, 0.67g/9h (N 5603; BW. 246) [4]. First fine and very rare, last very fine but with edge nick, others in varied state; all the varieties for that part of the present-day village of Edington £180-£220 --- Provenance: First bt N.A. Clark November 2009. N 5603 only illustrated. John Berry, mercer
![17th Century Tokens, Westport St Mary [Malmesbury], William Fry, Farthing, 1666, 1.13g/9h (N –; BW. 266); Giles Hoone, Farthi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/d465b60c-4e8c-42b3-bcd1-ad8e0123b928/468x382.jpg)
Lot 66
17th Century Tokens, Westport St Mary [Malmesbury], William Fry, Farthing, 1666, 1.13g/9h (N –; BW. 266); Giles Hoone, Farthing, 0.98g/6h (N –; BW. 267) [2]. First good fine and extremely rare, not known by the late owner to be represented in any institutional collection, second fair; the only issues from the village £150-£200 --- Provenance: *BW. 266 bt Baldwin. William Fry, weaver
Lot 67
17th Century Tokens, Wilton, Stephen Brassier, Halfpence, 1667 (3), 1.90g/3h (N 5621; BW. 268), 1.58g/6h (N 5622; BW. 268), 2.88g/3h (N 5624; BW. 268); G.H., Halfpenny, 1666, 1.86g/6h (N 9337; D 268A); William Newman, Halfpenny, 1667, 1.39g/3h (N 5625; D 268B) [5]. First very fine, others about fine and better; all the issuers for the town £70-£90 --- Provenance: N 9337 London Coins Auction 135 (Bracknell), 4 December 2011, lot 1214 (part). N 5621 only illustrated. At the Hilary Quarter Sessions in New Sarum in January 1670/1 (OS), Newman, a weaver, was indicted for ‘striking four halfpennies worth not more than one penny’; pleading guilty, he was fined 3s 4d (Kempson, BNJ 1973, p.129)
Lot 70
18th Century Tokens, Devizes, Joseph Baster, Halfpence, 1796 (5), breeches edge, 9.14g/6h (DH 2); grained over anglesey edge (2), 9.74g/6h, 9.68g/6h (both DH 2a); edge grained, 10.11g/6h (DH 2b); edge plain, 7.54g/5h (DH 2c) [5]. First fine and rare, others generally very fine £50-£70 --- Joseph Baster (b. 1762), tanner, breeches and glove manufacturer, Rowde, fl. 1812
Lot 72
18th Century Tokens, Salisbury, John and Thomas Sharpe, Halfpenny, 1796, 8.10g/6h (DH 21); Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, 9.88g/6h (DH 12) [2]. First extremely fine with original colour, second very fine £50-£70 --- John Thurston Sharpe (1746-1803) and Thomas Sharpe (1742-1806), brothers, b. Broughton, Hants., grocers and tea dealers
Lot 77
18th Century Tokens, County series, Markes Lambe, Lutwyche’s Halfpenny, horseman galloping left, wiltshire yeomanry cavalry around, revs. three horseman left, one carrying flag, edge grained, 9.51g/6h (DH 1). Fields rubbed, otherwise extremely fine, patinated £90-£120 --- About 650 struck for Markes Lambe (1776-1846), the Bath trader and numismatist, who removed to Beaminster, Dorset, and later Yeovil, where he practised as a surgeon. On 4 June 1794, at a meeting at the Bear Hotel in Devizes, the decision was taken to create bodies of yeomanry cavalry throughout Wiltshire; the first troop, of 56 yeomen, had already been formed at Bishops Cannings on 12 May. Initially consisting of ten troops acting independently and mustered over the following 12 months, they combined to form a single regiment, the Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry, on 15 April 1797. It is suggested that these tokens were struck at about that time. Command of the new body was given Sir Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury (1773-1856), the captain of the Marlborough troop and MP for the borough from 1796 to 1814. In June 1798 all ten troops paraded for the first time at Devizes and marched to Beckhampton Down, where Lady Bruce presented five standards; the regiment then comprised 28 officers and 595 NCOs, a total figure not unadjacent to the numbers of tokens struck, whether by accident or design
Lot 79
19th Century Tokens, Marlborough, Stephen King, John Gosling, William Tanner and Robert Griffiths, Shilling, 1811, t of tanner over space in beading, 3.54g/12h (D 3 var.; Waters p.15), Sixpence, 1811, 1.53g/12h (D 5); Staverton, John Jones, Wyon’s Penny, 1811, 17.65g/6h (W 1110) [3]. First very fine, second extremely fine, both toned, last fair but very rare £80-£100 --- D 5 only illustrated. John Jones (†1812) proprietor of the Staverton Super-fine Woollen Manufactory, which he erected at the turn of the century. The mill was said to house the very latest in textile technology, and hostilities between Jones and local wool shearmen who feared for their livelihoods reached a peak when Jones was attacked and shot in the face in an incident in 1808. His offer of a £500 reward for the capture of the culprits was never claimed. Jones was declared bankrupt in November 1812 and died within weeks. The mill as depicted on the token, engraved by Thomas Wyon, burnt down in 1824, but was rebuilt the following year and, many years later, was acquired by Nestlé, the food processor
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Broadchalke, Central Stores, F[rank] Bailey, brass Halfcrown, 25mm; Calne, Calne CSL [Founde](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/ae36f587-b890-4b47-a64e-ad8e01239e04/468x382.jpg)
Lot 88
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Broadchalke, Central Stores, F[rank] Bailey, brass Halfcrown, 25mm; Calne, Calne CSL [Founded 1903], One Pint (2), brass and aluminium, both 22mm, Mutuality Club celluloid Sixpence, 23mm (Rains 2, 3, 5), Thomas Harris & Sons, lead seal, 23mm, Peach Tree Coffee Tavern, brass Twopence, 24mm (Owens 244; Greenaway 1177) [6]. Fine and better £40-£50 --- Provenance: First bt June 2014; last bt R. Setchfield January 2009. Penultimate UKDFD 45587, recorded August 2014. F. Bailey & Son, established 1881; sold with further detail from the seller, a newspaper cutting featuring a photograph of the shop and a further image of it with the name of the issuer clearly visible. Thomas Harris & Sons, bacon curers; sold with a note on the firm, and its impact on the town of Calne. Peach Tree Coffee Tavern, Wood street, proprietor Thomas Harris, opened 1 March 1881
Lot 90
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Colerne, Old Fox and Hounds, J.W., brass, 24mm (Whitmore p.329; Greenaway 1177); Corsham, Methuen Arms Hotel, J. Sanders, brass Threepence by Mole, 23mm, Pack Horse Inn, copper Twopence, 23mm (Greenaway 1178); Cricklade, Red Lion Inn, Cricklade Benefit Society, brass, 23mm (Greenaway 1179, this piece), White Horse, E. Lansdown, brass Threepence by Pope, 27mm [5]. Second excavated and pierced, last fine but doubly pierced, others very fine £80-£100 --- Provenance: First bt September 2014; second bt August 2012; third bt N.A. Clark January 2010; fourth B.M. Greenaway Collection, DNW Auction T4, 13 December 2006, lot 1179 (part) [from A.H. Stevens December 1993]
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Hannington, [Jolly Tar Inn], Benefit Society (Est. 1851), brass Threepence, 23mm (Withers 20](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/21a4de98-afb5-48c6-90de-ad8e01239941/468x382.jpg)
Lot 92
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Hannington, [Jolly Tar Inn], Benefit Society (Est. 1851), brass Threepence, 23mm (Withers 2094; Greenaway 1179, this piece); Holt, National School, brass, 26mm (Greenaway 1180), The New Inn, brass, 23.5mm (Whitmore p.327; Greenaway 1180), The Three Lions, brass Three-Halfpence, 26mm, 5.80g/12h (Whitmore p.342; Greenaway 1180) [4]. Second excavated, others about very fine £70-£90 --- Provenance: First B.M. Greenaway Collection, DNW Auction T4, 13 December 2006, lot 1179 (part) [from J.R.P. King July 1988]; third G. Stone Collection, bt N.A. Clark August 2015
Lot 93
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Larkhill, Military Aeroplane Competition, 1912, Official Pass, uniface card, named (The Hon. L.J. Fiennes), signed F.H.S. [F.H. Sykes], 45mm. Very fine and very rare £100-£150 --- Group-Captain the Honourable Laurence John Evelyn Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (1890-1962), b. Marylebone, London, third son of Geoffrey Cecil Twisleton-Wykeham Fiennes, 18th Baron Saye (1858-1937); 9th Bn Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire LI, then Lt, 4th Bn; appointed Flying Officer, 26 June 1915; with 101 Squadron, RFC, August 1917; Squadron-Leader, RAF, Bir Salem, Palestine, 1922; placed on the retired list 1931; Air Attaché Washington, 1930-3, architect. An original commission warrant appertaining to him, dated 2 August 1919, was sold in these rooms in March 2007. Air Vice-Marshal Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes, GCSI, GCIE, GBE, KCB, CMG (1877-1954); b. Addiscombe, Surrey; worked on a tea plantation in Ceylon; trooper, Imperial Yeomanry Scouts, 1899; captured by Boers and endured a forced march before freedom; commissioned into Lord Roberts’ personal bodyguard but suffered a serious chest wound and invalided back to England; 2nd Lt, 15th Hussars, October 1901, posted to West African Regt, later attached to the Balloon Section of the RE; joined Intelligence Staff at Simla, 1905; Staff College, Quetta, October 1908, and promoted to Captain; learnt to fly at Brooklands in 1910 and awarded Royal Aero Club certificate no.96; Officer Commanding the military wing of the RFC, May 1912, later Commandant; approved the phrase Per Ardua ad Astra, adopted by the RAF as its motto; Chief of Staff of the RFC, 5 August 1914, and temporarily commander, November-December 1914; Officer Commanding the RNAS Eastern Mediterranean July 1915 and air commander for the Dardanelles campaign; Assistant Adjutant-General at the War Office, June 1916, later Deputy Adjutant and QMG; Chief of Air Staff, April 1918; Air Vice Marshal August 1919 and controller of civil aviation 1919-22; Conservative MP for Sheffield Hallam 1922-8; Governor of Bombay October 1928-November 1933, then returned to Britain; MP for Nottingham Central 1940-5; lived at Conock Manor, Devizes, and latterly in Marylebone, London. Although Sykes enjoyed a distinguished career in the early days of British military aviation, his character did not appeal to either Lord Kitchener or Winston Churchill and he was temporarily demoted, in 1914 and 1919, on the orders of both men. Sykes married Isabel Law (1895-1969), elder daughter of the prime minister Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923), in 1920. By 1911 it was clear that the development of aircraft had reached the point where they were of military significance. France, then the world’s leader in aviation, had over 200 aircraft in military service. In contrast, Britain’s total military aircraft strength was 19, of which, in the words of the then Under-Secretary of State for War, “one is broken beyond repair and one is quite out of date.” So, on behalf of the Air Battalion, Royal Engineers, the War Office convened to conduct a review of military flying in December 1911 and announced that a military aircraft trial would take place during 1912. The aim was to determine what aircraft would best suit the needs of the Army, and a prize of £4,000 was on offer to the manufacturer of the winning machine. By the time the trials were held, at Larkhill on Salisbury Plain in August 1912, the Air Battalion had become the military wing of the newly-established Royal Flying Corps (RFC). The trials were to be very exacting to the point of being unrealistic, considering the rudimentary character of early aeroplanes. Testing the aircraft’s performance in a number of competences, the War Office reserved the right to then purchase any machine for £1,000. The tests would include an aircraft’s ability to carry a load of 350lbs for 4½ hours, attain a speed of 55mph, take off from long grass, clover or harrowed land in 100 yards without damage and climb to 1,000 feet at a rate of at least 200 feet per minute, and finally land on rough ground, including ploughed land and stopping within 75 yards. A total of 32 aircraft were entered, although only 24 participated in the competition. Flying began on 2 August 1912 and continued for three weeks. The surprise winner was Samuel Cody’s biplane, popularly known as the ‘flying cathedral’ due to its size. It was an outdated design even in 1912, but managed to meet all the test criteria largely due to its very powerful 20hp Austro-Daimler 6-cylinder engine. The RFC felt compelled to purchase the machine, and took delivery of its first aircraft in November 1912; a second aircraft was delivered in February 1913. In April of that year, after some modifications, the first aircraft broke up at 500 feet and crashed to the ground at Farnborough, killing its pilot. The second aircraft was at this time undergoing repair following an accident in March; it was withdrawn from service and presented to the Science Museum in November 1913, having only flown for 2½ hours. The most successful aircraft to fly at the competition was the Royal Aircraft Factory’s BE 2, designed by Geoffrey de Havilland. Although it participated in all the trials it was unable to compete because of a conflict of interest, as the Superintendent of the Royal Aircraft Factory, Meryyn O’Gorman, was one of the judges. The BE 2 however was eventually ordered in large numbers by the RFC and saw operational service during the early part of the First World War, as well as continuing to be used as a training aircraft throughout the conflict. Sold with further detail and a newspaper cutting celebrating the centenary of the event, featuring an image of Samuel Cody
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Melksham, F[rederick] Jeffery, Promissory Halfpence, 1972 (2), silver and bronze [by Toye, K](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/43bb1db2-aaf8-467e-86b5-ad8e01239629/468x382.jpg)
Lot 95
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Melksham, F[rederick] Jeffery, Promissory Halfpence, 1972 (2), silver and bronze [by Toye, Kenning & Spencer], both 29mm, wooden Farthing, 1966, illegal tender for any amount, 39mm (Greenaway 1196); N[ational] School, uniface nickel, 26mm (cf. Greenaway 1181); Spencer & Co Ltd, uniface brass, stamped 218, 32mm; Spencer (Melksham) Ltd, uniface brass, stamped 1037, 32mm, rectangular brass, stamped 648, 28mm [7]. First brilliant and rare, second extremely fine, third very fine but numbers inked on obverse, others fine to very fine £70-£90 --- Provenance: Sixth bt May 2018; last bt September 2012. Frederick James Jeffery (1907-78), who styled himself as ‘England’s leading provincial coin dealer’, started dealing in coins in 1932. Popularly known as ‘Uncle Fred’ (though not to be confused with Fred Baldwin who also shared the same sobriquet), Jeffery was the first English dealer to regularly attend the American Numismatic Association’s annual convention. His open-style marketing methods and his vast stock ensured that he was well known and he was a fervent supporter of local numismatic societies, often travelling vast distances to a meeting with an estate car laden down with coins and sets to sell to members. His metallic tokens commemorate his 40th year in a business that is carried on today by his son, Richard Jonathan Jeffery; the tokens themselves were struck by Toye Kenning & Spencer in 1973, a decision prompted by the same manufacturer having struck the Wessex Numismatic Society’s Silver Jubilee medal earlier that year, Jeffery being then a prominent member of that Society. Fred Jeffery’s wooden farthing, of which 5,000 were made, was distributed at the 1966 ANA convention in Chicago
Lot 96
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Mere, Angel Inn, W. Green, brass Threehalfpence, 18mm (Courtney p.174; Whitmore p.302; Greenaway 1181), Mere Friendly Society, 1837, presented by Henry Jupe, brass, 29mm; Purton and Cricklade, John Lamb, copper (4 – Withers 4370a, 4380, 4385 [2, die-axes 12h and 6h]), William Lamb, brass (Withers 4390b); Rodbourne Cheney, Rodbourne Cheney Club, uniface oval brass Three-Halfpence and Penny, both 33 x 23mm (Greenaway 1183, latter this piece); Rowde, Coffee Tavern, brass Twopence, 26mm (Greenaway 1184, this piece); Seend, C[hurch of] E[ngland] School, brass, 25.5mm (Greenaway 1185) [11]. Second very fine and rare, last excavated, others fine to very fine £90-£120 --- Provenance: First bt J. Foster August 2009; second bt A. Payne; eighth bt N. Hall November 2010; ninth and last B.M. Greenaway Collection, DNW Auction T4, 13 December 2006, lots 1183, 1184 (parts) [ninth from R. Hayes April 1995, last from R. Hayes March 1997], bt A. Judd July 2013. John Lamb, grocer, draper and tea dealer, also with a shop in Wootton Bassett; William Lamb, b. 1811, draper and grocer, fl. 1861
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Salisbury, Anjel Inn [Fisherton], W. Brittain, brass Threehalfpence, 27mm; Crossed Keys Inn,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/a6a99b14-aba1-4f89-bb12-ad8e0123942d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 97
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Salisbury, Anjel Inn [Fisherton], W. Brittain, brass Threehalfpence, 27mm; Crossed Keys Inn, P. Ingerson, copper Threehalfpence, 22mm; Fisherton Brewery, G. Strong, brass Threehalfpence, 26mm; Loyal Stonehenge Lodge, No.462, brass Threehalfpence by Daniell, 23mm (Withers 2232); Old George Tap, bronze 1 Pint, 32mm; Readhead’s Engineering Works, brass spinner, 30mm; Salisbury CI & PSL [Est. 1887], uniface brass 5 Shillings, 24mm, brass 1 Pound, 23mm (Rains 8, 10); Salisbury CSL, bracteate bronze 1 Pound, 25mm, 1 Cwt Coal (2), bronze and brass, both 19mm, aluminium Bread, 19mm (Rains 20, 22-4); Salisbury Con[servative] Club, uniface brass, 18mm; Shoulder of Mutton Inn, S[amuel] Naish, brass Threehalfpence, 22mm (Whitmore p.339; Greenaway 1184); The Star Inn, W.H. Keene, brass Threehalfpence, 23mm (Whitmore p.240); Tintometer Ltd, brass Lunch, 38mm [16]. Third and ninth excavated, latter holed, others generally fine to very fine, some rare £200-£300 --- Provenance: First bt June 2010; second bt A. Hunt February 2020; fourth bt A. Judd May 2015; fifth bt January 2020; sixth bt R. Easter July 2014; twelfth bt August 2007
![Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Swindon [New Swindon], Grapes Inn, J. Kempster, brass Threepence by W. Smith, 23mm; New Swin](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20f9cd9b-3523-42ef-a933-ad8e011bb884/cd665893-12e2-4f15-aca0-ad8e01239254/468x382.jpg)
Lot 99
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Swindon [New Swindon], Grapes Inn, J. Kempster, brass Threepence by W. Smith, 23mm; New Swindon ISL [Est. 1860], brass Half-Sovereign, 20mm, brass 1 Pound, 23mm (Rains 9, 10); New Swindon ICSL, 1lb (3, oval brass, oval red fibre, hexagonal brass), 26 x 20mm, 26 and 25mm, 2lbs (3, brass, red fibre, square brass), 31, 31 and 26mm (Rains 11, 12, –, 15, 17, 18); New Swindon ICS, East Street, aluminium Halfcrown, 25mm (Rains 22); New Swindon CSL, rectangular aluminium 1 Pint Milk, 38 x 24mm (Rains 26); Ship Inn, Townsend’s Bowling Saloon, brass Threepence, 24mm (Greenaway 1182, this piece) [12]. Last extremely fine, others fine to very fine, a few better £80-£100 --- Provenance: First bt October 2011; second and last B.M. Greenaway Collection, DNW Auction T4, 13 December 2006, lot 1182 (part) [second from D.G. Vorley October 1990, last from F. Stevens November 1993]. J. Kempster, innholder, The Grapes, 1863-71
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Lot 100
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Swindon [Old Swindon], W[illiam] Clappen, brass, rev. suits to measure 38/- etc, 31mm (Withers 4933 [not seen]; Greenaway 1182, this piece); Swindon, B[ritish] R[ailways] (W[estern Region]), uniface triangular brass, stamped 7213, 39 x 33mm; Great Western Railway, Carr[iage] & Wagon Dept, uniface rectangular brass, stamped 5721, 35 x 23mm, Carr[iage] and Loco, uniface triangular brass, stamped 3673 and 246, both 39 x 33mm, Loco Pay Cheque, uniface oval brass, stamped 7362 sn, 39 x 26mm, Workmen’s Club, brass Sixpence, back stamped 393, 33mm, Swindon [Thamesdown], green fibre 10 Pence, orange fibre 5 Pence, both 25mm [9]. Last two extremely fine, first very fine and very rare, others fine to very fine £60-£80 --- Provenance: First B.M. Greenaway Collection, DNW Auction T4, 13 December 2006, lot 1182 (part) [from N. Mills September 1983], bt N.A. Clark August 2007; second and third bt March 2003; sixth and seventh bt March 2014
Lot 102
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Tidworth, Tidworth Hospital, uniface brass, stamped 227, 41mm; Tisbury, Fairweather Fairlie, brass Twopence and Penny by H.B. Sale, 23 and 24mm (Greenaway 1187); Tisbury, Fordingbridge and Ringwood [Hampshire], Fairweather Fairlie, brass Fivepence, Twopence and Penny, all 23.5mm [6]. Fine to very fine £50-£70 --- Provenance: First bt L. Shotton November 2016; second bt A. Judd October 2014; third bt February 2008; fourth bt M. Bailey May 2014
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