Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 11 4 Oct 2017
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Tokens, British, Warwickshire, Birmingham, [?Overseers of the Poor], halfpennies, 1796 (5), in copper (2), the Workhouse, PAYABLE THERE, rev. beehive and bees, 'I. Alston Fecit' below, edges engrailed (DH.63), plain (DH.63a); in brass (3), as previous, edges engrailed (DH.63 - 2, one with wavy line of (?) similor around beehive and bees), plain (DH.63a, with similar dark wavy line), extremely fine or better, mostly lustrous, especially the copper DH.63a, the plain brass DH.63 with scuff marks, all scarce to rare (5)
*both coppers ex Longman, lot 286 (part); last ex W. Gilbert
all ex Baldwin's vault
Examples of these tokens in brass were not recognised by Dalton and Hamer in their original work. Their statement 'These were also issued coated with similor [an alloy of copper and zinc] with a wavy circle of the metal left plain' implies that it refers to copper specimens, but the evidence from the present examples is that the wavy circle (of whatever alloy) was added to brass pieces. The circle itself is in a slightly different position on the three examples in this and the next lot.
(200-300 GBP)
*both coppers ex Longman, lot 286 (part); last ex W. Gilbert
all ex Baldwin's vault
Examples of these tokens in brass were not recognised by Dalton and Hamer in their original work. Their statement 'These were also issued coated with similor [an alloy of copper and zinc] with a wavy circle of the metal left plain' implies that it refers to copper specimens, but the evidence from the present examples is that the wavy circle (of whatever alloy) was added to brass pieces. The circle itself is in a slightly different position on the three examples in this and the next lot.
(200-300 GBP)