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Lot 1127      

Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $600

SHIPPING, Docks, etc. East and West India Dock company/ Tilbury Docks opening April 17th 1886 in gilt copper (29mm) pierced for suspension (see H, p33 this piece)(illus); Allan Line Porters, Liverpool in brass with central hole (32.5mm)(D&W cf 331/1 variety reverse plain)(illus); The Liverpool Shipbuilding Co Limited 1866 tally stamped 2931 in gilt brass (35mm) edge milled (D&W 333/29; MG 1405) (illus); Pacific Steam Navigation Co., tally stamped 309 in brass (35mm)(D&W 334/33; MG 1410) pierced at top for wear (illus); Baltic Steamship Company London/ Henry J.O.Gudgeon Ship and Insurance Broker in brass (28mm) another in silvered brass (illus); Gosport Side/ Floating Bridge Company in copper (29mm)(D&W 332/13)(illus); Portsmouth dock tally, G Feb 1810 in three lines in copper (22mm) bracteate style (illus); River Commission Wear/ Pass No, stamped 9969 in brass (39mm); (Grimsby) J.Bell, Ship Builder Union Dock/ 3d in brass (26mm); (Glasgow) South Portland Street Suspension Bridge 1853 in white metal (23x13.5mm)(2)(illus); Liverpool, 1865 Yearly ticket for Woodside Ferry in copper, scalloped edge (23mm) stamped 2235 (illus), another stamped 860 (D&W 334/44); Sunderland Ferry Token in brass (23mm)(5, one pierced)(D&W 334/38, 39(4)); Clyde Navigation/ Halfpenny Ferries Ticket copper and in brass (2)(28mm)(D&W 331/6)(3); Middlesborough/ Ferry Token in brass with central hole (22mm)(2); Port Clarence/ Ferry Token in brass, square with hole in centre (23mm); Ferry Token in brass with central hole (28mm)(2) and (22mm); City of Dartmouth Ferry Adult Fare in aluminium (23mm), Sunderland Corporation Transport 1 Journey in brass (20mm); Scotswood Bridge/ Toll Token in brass (23.5mm). Fine - good extremely fine, a few rare. (31)

The last ex Swan (lot 183 part) Collection, two ferry tokens and Grimsby from Schwer in 1984, tenth from Seaby in 1975. Most of the others from Baldwin in 1987-92.