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Cambridge, Nicholas Apthorp (Tallow-chandler or Maltster), Farthing, undated, in copper alloy, 9h, m.m. mullet (m.m.) NICHOLAS • APTHORP •, globe on stand, rev. (m.m.) • IN • CAMBRIDGE, [M A] in centre (Cooper [1845], pp. 541; Babington 4; Searle 4; Boyne & Williamson 14; SCBI Norweb I, -; Dickinson, Cambs 14), reverse somewhat flat with some scratches, otherwise fine, not in the Norweb collection, rare thus.
Provenance
Purchased Nigel Clark, April 1987
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Most likely a scion of the Apthorp family of Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, where one Nicholas was recorded entering the Bedford Open Baptist Church in May 1692. He was a successful maltster with a goods valuation of 1711 totalling £813.17.1d, with £208.0.0 assessed at his maltstore at Ware, Hertfordshire. Similarly, he owned 63 acres of farmland growing wheat, rye, oats and barley at the time of his death. Confusingly, the Will of Nicholas Apthorp proved in 1719 gives his trade as a tallow-chandler.
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For further reading, see David F. Wratten, 'Seventeenth Century Cambridgeshire Tokens', Token Corresponding Society Bulletin, Vol. 5, no. 5, May 1995, pp. 167
Estimate: £20 - £40
Provenance
Purchased Nigel Clark, April 1987
,
Most likely a scion of the Apthorp family of Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, where one Nicholas was recorded entering the Bedford Open Baptist Church in May 1692. He was a successful maltster with a goods valuation of 1711 totalling £813.17.1d, with £208.0.0 assessed at his maltstore at Ware, Hertfordshire. Similarly, he owned 63 acres of farmland growing wheat, rye, oats and barley at the time of his death. Confusingly, the Will of Nicholas Apthorp proved in 1719 gives his trade as a tallow-chandler.
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For further reading, see David F. Wratten, 'Seventeenth Century Cambridgeshire Tokens', Token Corresponding Society Bulletin, Vol. 5, no. 5, May 1995, pp. 167
Estimate: £20 - £40