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Unofficial farthings, Isle of Man, Douglas, Douglas Bazaar, 1857 (Withers 6910). Good very fine and rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $190
Unofficial farthings, Isle of Man, Douglas, Falkner's Bazaar (Withers 6920). Good very fine and rare.
Estimate $200
Passed in
Collection of medalets, advertising tokens, commemorative items, mostly 19th and early 20th Century, mostly 22-30mm bronze, including Royal Colosseum, Harris Tweed, John Blurton Yorkshire, Webster's Aluminium Medals, Birmingham Mint, WS and MC 1892-1900, Court Gazette and Fashionable Guide, Paper Hanging Manufacturers, Cambridgeshire, Curtis farthing 1813, Grand Black Chapter of British Commonwealth, Integer Game counters, Sir Thomas Lipton Americas cup 1901, Bishop Ninde Prest Epworth League, GF Phillips Lord Mayor of London 1807, Frank Penfold Tent Evangelist, Mathews on the Game of Whist, Dicky Bird Society 1886, enamelled Railwaymen's Convalescent Home, London IDC 1914, Bell Medal Rifle Clubs, and many others. Ideal material for research or resale, very fine to extremely fine. (35)
Estimate $300
SOLD $280
Miscellaneous tokens, advertising check Sedan France, 5 and 10 engraved tokens, C P on 1797 twopence; Manchester Lunatic Hospital 1796; Wanganui Club 1905 set of 4, New York tokens 1835 and 1850, in 2x2 capsules on two trays. Fair - extremely fine. (29)
Estimate $200
SOLD $160
Railway and horse drawn omnibus tickets, (13 + 5 for Belgium (2), Switzerland, New York and Peru) cigarette advertising tickets (3) Waterloo 'Hollands Glory', VOC copper duit 1790 Utrecht, all in capsule in a tray. One holed, very good - extremely fine. (23)
Estimate $300
SOLD $260
Metropolitan Railway Drill & Shooting Corps, in bronze, (32mm), by Toye, Kenning & Spencer. Traces of red, uncirculated and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Bath Theatre, Pit, another but for box/second price, another but for Gallery (Withers 3, 4, 2). Good very fine. (3)
Estimate $450
SOLD $360
Dublin, Crow Street (Theatre) 1790 in brass (34mm) Box (Withers 28) 148 engraved on the reverse. Some corrosion, otherwise fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Liverpool Theatre, in copper (35mm) Box (Withers 55). Very good.
Estimate $50
Passed in
Theatre Royal (Liverpool) in bracteate tin plate (43mm) Box (8), Pit (29 and 37) (Withers 66, 68 (2)). Good very fine. (3)
Estimate $450
Passed in
Royal Coburg Theatre, RCT Pit 2 in copper (31mm) (Withers 91). Very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Covent Garden Theatre, First Theatre 1733-1808, Duke of Cumberland, Box in gilt copper (33mm) (Withers 97) by T. Pingo. Nearly very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $320
New Theatre, Covent Garden, 1809 rev. P in copper (29mm) (Withers 140) (with Spink envelope); with K (Withers 141); St. George's Hall Liverpool in copper (30mm) (Withers 747); Queen's Theatre Manchester in copper (30mm) (Withers 462); Music Hall, Manchester, Benjamin Lang (Withers 794, another 797); William Henry Betty, 1804 medalet. Fine - good very fine. (7)
Estimate $150
SOLD $200
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, First Gallery, 1776, in copper (40mm) stamped 165 (Withers 191). Very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $280
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 4th Theatre Upper Gallery in copper (31mm) (Withers 215). Uneven (overstrike), good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
Theatre Royal Haymarket, Pit 1778, another Second Gallery 1778 (Withers 253, 258) in copper (36mm). Good very fine. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $340
Lyceum, Strand, London, halfpennies (undated, c.1795) (D&H 362a, b). Extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $80
Passed in
Lyceum Theatre, Theatre Royal English Opera House T.R.E.O.H. pit, square in copper (38mm) (Withers 360). Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Prince of Wales Theatre, Pit in brass (30mm) (Withers 392). Nearly very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Royal Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel Box in copper (31mm) (Withers 404). Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Theatre Royal Gallery, in white metal (38mm) (Withers 466). Nearly extremely fine/extremely fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $150
Northampton Theatre, 1805, in silver (38mm) (Withers 471). Good extremely fine.
Estimate $350
SOLD $300
Windsor Theatre, Free Admission token on Charles II, fourth bust, halfcrown c.1680's, reverse smoothed and engraved "WINDSOR THEATRE FREE ADMISSION TO THE SHAREHOLDER OF NOS 25.82.100 I.W.". Holed, very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $160
Mary Dunn, Bermondsey Hotel in brass (32mm) (Withers 645); Day's Crystal Palace Concert Hall in brass (32mm) (Withers 580); Rodney Inn Concert Hall in brass (32mm) (Withers 608); Circus, Bannister Travelling Circus in brass (30mm) (Withers 954); Longley's Patent in brass (33mm); general use issue, uniface (cf Withers 780 uniface with larger central hole) brass (31mm); also Society Theatre, Manchester, Charles Chaplin in the Gold Rush in brass (27mm) 1926. Fourth very good, others very fine or better. (6)
Estimate $240
Passed in
Welch & Co., Hippodrome (Birmingham Circus) Pit in brass (32mm) (Withers 980). Very fine.
Estimate $60
Passed in
Madame Tussaud's Exhibition, Baker Street, one shilling, and sixpence (1645 and 853) in brass (37mm) (Withers 1041, 2). Very good; good very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Sydney Gardens, Vauxhall (c.1795) in copper (33mm) (Withers 1196) rev. 'Capt Hall/No 61'. Reverse scratching, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $170
Ranelagh House, 1745 in copper (32mm) (Withers 1337). Nearly fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Theatre and concert, checks various includes Pomona Gardens; The Armada 1888 Drury Lane Theatre (3) Paid and Admit token 1817 Truro 1830, Royal Casino Concert Hall Manchester; Leeds Casino Concert Hall, G?? Cinema Cardiff; Covent Garden Old Prices (Withers 169-170), in hard plastic holders on a tray. Fine - extremely fine. (19)
Estimate $200
SOLD $150
Peace of Utrecht Medal, 1713, in silver (35mm) (Eimer 460), by J.Croker, obverse, bust of Queen Anne left, reverse, Britannia standing left holding an olive branch in her right hand and a spear and shield in her left hand with ships and a farming scene in the background. A few small nicks, otherwise fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $140