Watch List notes:

BRITISH 18TH CENTURY TOKENS, ENGLAND, James Sketchley, (d. 1801), freemason, printer, publisher, and auctioneer, 61 High Street, Copper Halfpenny (9), obv Freemasons' Arms, AMOR HONOR ET JUSTITIA on a ribbon, 24 NOV 1790 PRINCE OF WALES ELECTED GM. + around, bird's head under O of OF, supporters ribbed, no punctuation after NOV, quatrefoil under the arms (8), rev bust of the Prince of Wales right, GEORGE PRINCE OF WALES around, no stop after WALES, hairline to second limb of C of PRINCE, edge PAYABLE IN LANCASTER LONDON OR BRISTOL (Conder p.240, 250; Atkins p.377, 159; D&H Middlesex 368); rev cupid and Masonic emblems, WISDOM STRENGTH & BEAUTY, SIT LUX ET LUX FUIT. around, stop after FUIT., the rays formed of lines of dots (4), edge MASONIX TOKEN I.SCETCHLEY FECIT 1794 X (Atkins p.101, 261a; D&H Middlesex 369a); edge PAYABLE IN LANCASTER LONDON OR BRISTOL (Atkins p.101, 261b; D&H Middlesex 369b); edge PAYABLE AT LONDON . + . + . + . + (Atkins p.101, 261c; D&H Middlesex 369c); edge PAYABLE AT LONDON OR DUBLIN (Atkins p.101, 261d; D&H Middlesex 369d); rev no stop after FUIT., the rays are formed of alternative lines and lines of dots (2), edge HALFPENNY PAYABLE AT THE BLACK HORSE TOWER HILL . X . (Atkins p.101, 262; D&H Middlesex 370); edge MASONIC TOKEN I. SCETCHLEY FECIT 1794 X (Atkins p.101, 262a; D&H Middlesex 370a); rev stop after BEAUTY and FUIT., the rays are all formed of alternative lines, edge PAYABLE IN LANCASTER LONDON OR BRISTOL (D&H Middlesex 371 edge unlisted, Davisson as D&H Middlesex 371c); obv supporters not ribbed, comma after NOV, quatrefoil under the arms, rev the rays are formed of lines of dots, edge HALFPENNY PAYABLE AT THE BLACK HORSE TOWER HILL . X . (Conder p.111, 343; Atkins p.101, 264; D&H Middlesex 372). D&H 369d, 370 and 371c very fine, the others good extremely fine, some retaining original colour. (9)

Longman suggests that the tokens may have been distributed at the Black Horse, a tavern in Tower Hill, London, which was run by a brother Mason of Sketchley's.

Estimate: £150-200