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Auction 20122  27 May 2020
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Lot 624

Starting price: 30 GBP
Price realized: 30 GBP
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Cambridge, Trumpington Street, The Mitre Tavern, Edward and Elizabeth Farley (Innkeeper), Farthing, 1651, in copper alloy, 6h, m.m. star, (m.m.) AT • THE • MITER • IN, Bishop's Mitre, rev. (m.m.) CAMBRIDGE • 1651, •E •F •F in centre (Cooper [1845] pp. 541; Babington 24; Searle 22; Boyne & Williamson 40; SCBI Norweb I, 418; Dickinson, Cambs 40), surface roughness, otherwise struck very fine, very rare.
Provenance
Purchased Alan Fordham, 9 August 2000
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The Mitre Tavern was situated in St. Edward's Parish on the site of the former church of St John Zachary, which was in turn pulled down to make way for King's College.
Estimate: £40 - £60
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