Lot 763

Description

Essex, Chelmsford, Polytechnic Exhibition May 1848 in white metal (29mm) shire hall with tree to right (M.G.855) (SA345) another without tree, building face on (SA.345a) (illustrated). Derby Free Library and Museum, 1879, in brass (32mm) medalet or jeton (illustrated). Heaton Norris, Bowling Green/Drabble Ash Pleasure Gardens in copper (30mm) edge milled (D&W.59/115) (M.G.719) (2, one with cross countermark in reverse (illustrated). Seedly Pendleton, Clay Hall/Tea and Strawberry Gardens in brass (26mm) edge milled (D&W.53/74; M.G.711) (illustrated). Oldham, Barlow's Museum/Preserver of Birds, in brass (24mm) edge milled (illustrated). Morecambe Summer Gardens/one penny in brass (26mm) (D&W.91/346). Yorkshire, Sheffield, Botanic Gardens in brass (33mm) edge milled another reverse blank (31mm) and (24mm) edge milled (D&W.95/372 one size only; M.G.-) (illustrated) all three very rare; Lady Edith Drive one penny in brass (40mm) believed to be for Scarborough (D&W.-;M.G.-) (illustrated); York Historical Pageant, 1909 in copper (21mm) Constantine (the Great)/Helena (illustrated). Royal William Gardens in brass (32mm) 3d (D&W.-; M.G.-) (illustrated). Park Regimental crowned LHV (Light Horse Volunteers) monogram/526, (large holed for suspension) in silver (22mm) (M.G.1552) Sourlie Drive 1821/fox running right in brass (20mm) (D.&W. ;M.G. ) G.H. Drive 1823 in copper (23mm) bracteate style (D&W. ;M.G. ) Roads Department A&NT in brass (30mm) countermarked BD/11 (double piercing) for wearing. Worcestershire, Stourbridge, Vauxhall Gardens 3d in copper (24mm) (J.W. ref.9790). (Birmingham) Soho Lake, Handsworth/one penny in gilt brass (24mm) boating refreshment check circa 1865 (lake was drained in 1869) (D.&W.50/51) (illustrated). Balgay Hill Pleasure Grounds, Forfarfshire, 1871 in brass (23mm) corroded. Wentworth Gardens threepence (17mm) in aluminium. Bristol, Public Free Libraries, in brass (43 x 32mm) stamped 610 (illustrated), another similar, stamped 234 (D&W.300/7; M.G.-). Fine-extremely fine. (23)

The first, twelfth and twentieth from Seaby in 1975, the third and eighth from L. Bennett in 1988, the fourth and twenty-first from Baldwin in 1989, nearly all the others from Schwer in 1984.