Noonans
Auction 165 4-5 Dec 2019
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British Tokens from Various Properties
19th Century Tokens, GLOUCESTERSHIRE (?), Nailsworth (?), Remmington & Smith, copper Halfcrown, 1804, legend around value, rev. we promise to pay the bearer on demand a one pound note for eight of these pieces, edge plain, 39mm, 17.08g/6h (D Not Local 17; cf. Davis Sale, 701 [= Norman II, 310]). Pierced, otherwise fine, extremely rare; very few specimens known £150-£200
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Provenance: Bt Spink 1971.
It is believed that the issuer was John Remmington, a broadcloth manufacturer and the proprietor of the Gigg spinning mill near Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, who lived at Horsley, near Minchinhampton. Remmington, whose clients included the East India Co, retired in 1811. Research potential
19th Century Tokens, GLOUCESTERSHIRE (?), Nailsworth (?), Remmington & Smith, copper Halfcrown, 1804, legend around value, rev. we promise to pay the bearer on demand a one pound note for eight of these pieces, edge plain, 39mm, 17.08g/6h (D Not Local 17; cf. Davis Sale, 701 [= Norman II, 310]). Pierced, otherwise fine, extremely rare; very few specimens known £150-£200
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Provenance: Bt Spink 1971.
It is believed that the issuer was John Remmington, a broadcloth manufacturer and the proprietor of the Gigg spinning mill near Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, who lived at Horsley, near Minchinhampton. Remmington, whose clients included the East India Co, retired in 1811. Research potential