Lot 2300

Description

Ceylon, Keir, Dundas & Co, Small Pass Mills, Colombo, monogram/ship (East Indiaman three masted ship of 1500 tons), in brass, issued 1866 (Pr.52). Another, reverse elephant (St. Sebastian mills) (Pr.53) another reverse tortoise (Upland Mills, Mutwal, Colombo) (Pr.54); the last two pierced as always; another countermarked S on reverse (Pr.55); another set of (Pr.52-4). Lee Hedges & Co. 1867, Colpetty Mills (4«d) (Pr.61) (3), 1876 Demattagodde Mills (in Dean's Road, Maradona) (Pr.62) (2). Very fine - nearly uncirculated. (12)

Ex W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 61 (lot 1525) and previously the last of each variety ex J.G. Gartner Collection, the duplicates ex Carnegie Museum of Natural History Collection (lot 880 part), the third acquired from Colpetty in 1969.