Noonans
Auction 153 4 Dec 2018
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18th Century Tokens
Shropshire, Boscobel, an unfinished uniface trial for the rev. of Westwood's Halfpenny, oak-tree laden with fewer branches than on the issued token, base of the trunk and top of the root stem with a circular surround, thick ground-line, witness lines demarcate legend area, edge payable at macclesfield liverpool or congleton, 12.67g (DH –). Rim knock at 8 o'clock and other stress marks on the back, otherwise very fine with brown patina, apparently unpublished, UNIQUE
£1,000-£1,500
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Provenance: J. O'Byrne Collection, Part II, Christie's Auction, 10 July 1962, lot 128 (part); with Baldwin; bt H. Simmons October 1989.
To make this token John Westwood used one of the blanks intended for the Macclesfield Copper Co (Roe & Co) series, which he struck at his premises in Great Charles street, Birmingham. Westwood was responsible for the finished Boscobel tokens (DH Shropshire 1), which couple the bust of Charles II with a modified tree and were struck on blanks intended for tokens for John Wilkinson and the Irish Mine Co, Cronebane
Shropshire, Boscobel, an unfinished uniface trial for the rev. of Westwood's Halfpenny, oak-tree laden with fewer branches than on the issued token, base of the trunk and top of the root stem with a circular surround, thick ground-line, witness lines demarcate legend area, edge payable at macclesfield liverpool or congleton, 12.67g (DH –). Rim knock at 8 o'clock and other stress marks on the back, otherwise very fine with brown patina, apparently unpublished, UNIQUE
£1,000-£1,500
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Provenance: J. O'Byrne Collection, Part II, Christie's Auction, 10 July 1962, lot 128 (part); with Baldwin; bt H. Simmons October 1989.
To make this token John Westwood used one of the blanks intended for the Macclesfield Copper Co (Roe & Co) series, which he struck at his premises in Great Charles street, Birmingham. Westwood was responsible for the finished Boscobel tokens (DH Shropshire 1), which couple the bust of Charles II with a modified tree and were struck on blanks intended for tokens for John Wilkinson and the Irish Mine Co, Cronebane