Baldwin & Sons
Auction 107 5 Oct 2022
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Sawbridgeworth, Robert Orchard (grocer & tea-dealer), Penny, 1801, full-face bust in high relief, Robert
Orchard Sawbridgeworth Herts, rev. book lying below tree, village church in distance, Sawbridgeworth
penny token, edge plain, 37mm/21.81gm. (DH 1). From the cracked and unrepaired obverse die and the
broken reverse die. A cut inflicted on the reverse and a little rub on the highest points of the nose and forelock of the obverse ‑ otherwise essentially as struck. Of the highest rarity with only five specimens traced and this is the single known example available in this die state.
Ex. Thomas Lloyd Collection, Sotheby's, 10 May 1878, lot 278; Ex. S H Hamer Collection, Glendinings, 26-28 Nov. 1930, lot 91, to A H Baldwin & Sons Ltd for F S Cokayne. Ex. Baldwins 30 Sep. 2014, lot 83.
We suspect that Mr Cokayne was delighted in the outcome because he noted that a specimen, lot 59 of the sale
at Glendinings on 18 April 1923, "fetched £145!!!" and that "my specimen ‑ a finer one fetched (only) £31.00".
Baldwin's had been instructed to bid no more than. £14/15s for this lot. The curious amount of 15-Shillings as
part of his bid instructions turns up with some frequency in his purchases.
Orchard Sawbridgeworth Herts, rev. book lying below tree, village church in distance, Sawbridgeworth
penny token, edge plain, 37mm/21.81gm. (DH 1). From the cracked and unrepaired obverse die and the
broken reverse die. A cut inflicted on the reverse and a little rub on the highest points of the nose and forelock of the obverse ‑ otherwise essentially as struck. Of the highest rarity with only five specimens traced and this is the single known example available in this die state.
Ex. Thomas Lloyd Collection, Sotheby's, 10 May 1878, lot 278; Ex. S H Hamer Collection, Glendinings, 26-28 Nov. 1930, lot 91, to A H Baldwin & Sons Ltd for F S Cokayne. Ex. Baldwins 30 Sep. 2014, lot 83.
We suspect that Mr Cokayne was delighted in the outcome because he noted that a specimen, lot 59 of the sale
at Glendinings on 18 April 1923, "fetched £145!!!" and that "my specimen ‑ a finer one fetched (only) £31.00".
Baldwin's had been instructed to bid no more than. £14/15s for this lot. The curious amount of 15-Shillings as
part of his bid instructions turns up with some frequency in his purchases.