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.).
ProvenanceEx Stocker collection, Kent, UK, 1955-early 2000s.
FootnotesThomas 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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Worcestershire, Worcester AR Shilling. Dated 1811.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
WORCESTER COUNTY & CITY TOKEN ✿, coat-of-arms within wreath of olive and palm; below, banner reading CIVITAS IN BELLO IN PACE FIDELIS / TO FACILITATE TRADE, VALUE ONE SHILL: in three lines within oak wreath; date below. Dalton 1; TB 1. 4.04gr, 25mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds AE Farthing. Dated 1666.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
FRANCES SMITH around date / IN ST EDMONDS BVRY around IN SVFFOL in three lines. Dickenson, p.204, 76. 1.09gr, 16mm, 3h.
Good Fine.
Acquired on the European art market since the early 2000s. From the private Northern Ireland collection of R.M. -
Middlesex, Palmer's Mail Coach CU Halfpenny. 1797.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
MAIL COACH HALFPENNY PAYABLE IN LONDON. around, mail coach being pulled to right by four horses, TO TRADE EXPEDITION & TO PROPERTY PROTECTION. in three lines below / TO J. PALMER. Esq THIS IS INSCRIBED AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FOR BENEFITS RECE.D FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MAIL COACHES in eight lines; cipher JF below; all within wreath. D&H 363. 9.10gr, 28mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
