Details
LOT 3730
United Kindgom. Stock Exchange CU Halfpenny Token. 1798-1816.
Dated 1811. Middlesex, London. Thomas Wood, auctioneer. Front of Georgian building with sign reading NEW AUCTION MART; below ESTABLISHED 1811; PAYABLE AT THE OLD STOCK EXCHANGE IN BANK NOTES HALFPENNY around / THOMAS WOOD. BROKER, AUCTIONEER & GENERAL AGENT • around, SALES OF ESTATES, HOUSES, MANUFACTURED GOODS, AND MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY, SPEEDILY EFFECTED WITHOUT RISK. PUBLIC AUCTIONS EVERY DAY AT 12. PRIVATE ORDERS FOR ALL KINDS OF GOODS PUNCTUALLY EXECUTED. in fourteen lines. Withers 845a; Davis Middlesex 65 var. Good Very Fine. Extremely Rare (RRR by Withers).(9.54gr, 31mm, 6h.).
Provenance
Ex Stocker collection, Kent, UK, 1955-early 2000s.
Footnotes
Thomas Wood was an auctioneer with business rooms in the Old Stock Exchange at the corner of Swithins Alley, close to the north-east corner of the Royal Exchange, London. He was declared bankrupt in 1813 and the building burned down in 1816.
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