Lot 2296

Description

Ceylon, Ceylon Plantation Co. CH in script/blank (28 mm) (pierced) (Pr.20), another countermarked D on reverse. Colombo Commercial Co, Slave Island Mills, 1876 in brass (Pr.22) (2). Darley, Butler & Co, Colombo Ceylon, 1860, full bag of clean coffee unit (36 mm) (9d) and half unit (29 mm) (3) (Pr.27, 28). P. Fernando, Coffee Picker's Chit/Pilo Fernando Colombo 4«d, another 2¬d (upright rectangle) (Pr.33, 34). Nearly fine - good extremely fine. (10)

Ex W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 61 (lot 1521) and the last pair previously from the J.G. Gartner Collection, the second, fourth and eighth from M. Freehill in 1967, the others ex Carnegie Museum of Natural History (lots 878-9 part).