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Auction 193 6-7 Jul 2021
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The Collection of Sheffield Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by Tim Hale
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Market Checks: Bookless Brothers, Wholesale Fish Market, brass 4 Shillings and Shilling, both 30mm; Thomas Bott, Wholesale Fish Market, nickel-plated brass and brass Shilling, both 26mm; T.E. Cooke, Fish Market, uniface brass Shilling, 32mm; Ernest Cox, uniface hexagonal brass 2 Shillings, 25mm (cf. DNW 127, 2990); W.C. Lidgard, Wholesale Fish Market, brass Shilling, 26mm, oval aluminium Shilling, 34 x 23mm; McConnell & Priestley, Wholesale Fish Market, brass, 30mm [9]. First fair, others about very fine and better, all scarce £50-£70
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The Wholesale Fish Market in Sheffield, on Shude hill, was opened in 1879. It became a key re-distribution centre, where fresh fish from east coast ports could be sent by rail to Sheffield and then on to Lancashire and the East Riding. The market was demolished in 1961
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Market Checks: Bookless Brothers, Wholesale Fish Market, brass 4 Shillings and Shilling, both 30mm; Thomas Bott, Wholesale Fish Market, nickel-plated brass and brass Shilling, both 26mm; T.E. Cooke, Fish Market, uniface brass Shilling, 32mm; Ernest Cox, uniface hexagonal brass 2 Shillings, 25mm (cf. DNW 127, 2990); W.C. Lidgard, Wholesale Fish Market, brass Shilling, 26mm, oval aluminium Shilling, 34 x 23mm; McConnell & Priestley, Wholesale Fish Market, brass, 30mm [9]. First fair, others about very fine and better, all scarce £50-£70
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The Wholesale Fish Market in Sheffield, on Shude hill, was opened in 1879. It became a key re-distribution centre, where fresh fish from east coast ports could be sent by rail to Sheffield and then on to Lancashire and the East Riding. The market was demolished in 1961