Lot 110

Description

Scotland, 18th century mostly duplicates, mostly letter (s) only punches, two with dates 1718, 1721, all in 2X2 holders attributed with Brook numbers by Capt.M.B.'Buckie' Orr in 1972 (Br.186, 103, 107, 121, 136, 139, 140, 157, 191, 213, ux (K&L 48, 228-31, 270, 295, 301, 307, 308, 338, 452, 511, 518, 520, 550, 553, 554, 562, 564b, 568a, 574, 585-7, 594a, 596, 604, 604a, 604b, 696, 697, 700, 704c, 712, 739, 760, 761, 777, 801, 809, 878, 925, 988, 1064, 1121, 1147). Those that are not duplicates (9) are 18b, 140, 191, 554, 562, 568a, 587, 604b, 697. Mostly very fine - extremely fine. (57)

Ex H.G>Williams Collection. It is probable that Williams acquired his collection and bulk duplicates from Davidson of , Scotland. This group and the two similar groups in the next two lots were returned by 'Buckie' Orr after he had listed them for sale thus they were not included in a larger bulk lot of these sold to Spink in 1973 together with the Williams Collection. It is likely that early collectors were able to obtain remainder stocks of tokens from old Kirks thus, accounting for this hoard of multiple issues being preserved.