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Belfast, Birney's Boots, 71 North Street, Belfast in copper (32mm) milled edge. Slight bend and fine scratches behind boot otherwise good very fine/extremely fine and rare.
Estimate $60
SOLD $90
Belfast, Falls (Road) Foundry, work tally in gilt brass (32mm) edge milled, stamped 846 both sides; James Mackie and Sons Ltd, Albert Foundry in brass (34mm) stamped 943; Wm. Ewart & Son Ltd, one penny voucher 1907 in bronze (31mm). Co. Dublin, Balbriggan, S(mith) and Co. Ltd, countermarked on three different tallies of W.A. Bradley & Co. Nottingham in brass (32mm) brown and black bakelite (stamped 209, 509, 422) undated but circa 1900, all pierced for suspension. Fine-extremely fine, the last three unpublished, rare. (6)
Estimate $120
SOLD $100
Cork, Richard Daly, advertising check 1872, farthing size, in brass edge milled. Good very fine, unpublished and rare.
Estimate $90
SOLD $90
Dublin, Arnott & Co, advertising check in blackened bronze by Dunkelsbuhler & Co. Nuremberg (edge lettered). Good extremely fine and rare.
Estimate $70
SOLD $100
Dublin, advertising checks, unofficial farthing size in brass, Austins 1861 (BWS.5950); Bayly & Co; Gregory Kane (BWS 6070 (2 die varieties), 6080, 6090); George Lynch. Good very fine-extremely fine, several rare to very rare. (7)
Estimate $180
SOLD $250
Dublin, advertising checks, T. McEvoy's Hat Store, Talbot Street in brass (21mm); Pim Bros. Ltd, Doublin in brass (20mm); John Watson, in brass octagonal (23mm); Geale & MacBride's halfpenny size check (McAllister 974; D&H.Supp bis). Very fine-extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $120
SOLD $170
Dublin, advertising checks, Wm. Whitestone, building/24 North Earl Street in brass (illustrated), silvered brass and copper (2), 23 and 24 North Earl Street/legend in silvered brass (illustrated) and brass, building/34 North Earl Street in brass (illustrated), legends both sides silvered brass (illustrated). Fine-extremely fine. (8)
Estimate $150
SOLD $250
Limerick, advertising ticket, Peter Tait & Co, Army Clothiers, in brass inverted die axis, another in copper struck en medaille, three holes pierced, one near top, two in centre. Fine-very fine and rare. (2)
Estimate $180
SOLD $150
Co. Louth, Drogheda Chemical Manure Co., 1882 Dublin Exhibition commemorative advertising ticket in brass (32mm) edge milled (illustrated). Tyler's Boots, Cork Exhibition 1902 commemorative advertising ticket in copper (23mm). Belfast, Patterson's, Bread and Rich cakes in brass (26mm) as imitation spade guinea. Dublin, Holme's Irish Cutlery, in copper (27mm) by F.I. Roche (2, one attractive extremely fine) (McAllister 973). Dublin, Johnson Jeweller, in silver (16mm) advertising ticket as a puzzle token, five hundred pounds. Dr. T.C.S. Corry music and antiquities in brass (27.5mm) edge milled and oval (45 x 31mm) (D&W.55/85, 87; MG.856.-). Wolfe Tone, Fianna Fail, Break the Connection commemorative, lracteate style in brass (28mm). Very fine-extremely fine. (9)
Estimate $200
SOLD $270
Dublin, Tea Company checks, Castle Tea Company, quarter pound payable at Branches (2) payable at Castle Street (2); Dublin Tea Company, quarter pound copper and brass; India and China Plantation Tea Company, quarter pound (2); The London and Newcastle Tea Company's, quarter pound check 1876 (all these previous farthing size) half pound and one pound checks 1876, half pound check for Cork, 1879, quarter pound check in brass for Waterford 1891; Assam Plantation Tea Company, half pound check, Dublin, countermarked ¬. Fair-extremely fine. (14)
Estimate $90
SOLD $170
Co. Dublin, Dublin Co-Operative Friendly Society Limited, halfpenny countermarked Inchicore in zinc (25mm) (Szauer 245, photo 286) The ERA Value one penny (Szauer 244/286), North Dublin Co-Ope. Socy Ltd, one penny in copper (22mm) bracteate style. Dublin(?) Macraes check around 6, obverse (BWS QV121) in brass (22mm) with milled edge, also unofficial farthing Cork, Joseph Helen (BWS 5760). Fine-very fine, the third and fourth rare (illustrated). (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Ireland, 'Slap' or makeshift tokens, worn silver shillings and sixpences countermarked by merchants and traders and circulated by weight (see McAllister 962 where 55 are described) includes a 1606 sixpence clipped down to 18mm. Shilling size (7) sixpence size (6) mainly used in late 18th century. Also a crude ('blacksmith' style) contemporary counterfeit of the 1822/3 penny dated 1821. Co. Tipperary William Hodgins Cloughjordan penny 1858, minted by W.J. Taylor for export to Australia and New Zealand (Andrews 659). Cronebane halfpennies 1789 (4) undated, Wexford, Enniscorthy Woodcock's Bank halfpenny 1800, Camac Kyan Camac halfpenny 1793, Bank token for ten pence Irish 1813, George III penny 1805, Charles II halfpenny 1686 and James II Gunmoney crown 1690 halfcrown October 1689 and shilling July 1689. Poor-good very fine. (27)
Estimate $200
SOLD $500
Irish and British copper coins countermarked by merchants, traders etc, mainly in late 18th and early 19th century, a good range of issues and full names, all in 2 x 2 envelopes with attributions on many to the listing by Emil Szauer in Irish Numismatics 1970 Nos.15-18, includes McAllister Nos.941, 943, 944, 949-954, most countermarks have origins in Ireland, a selection is illustrated, included is a Liverpool halfpenny token and an engraved Dublin 'pawnbrokers' penny 1804 (both only fair), a worn disc (in copper (32mm) with a neatly engraved insignia of the order of St. Patrick (illustrated), a large cent 1852 countermarked C.W.F., Mallow & Co. Dublin in 2 lines on a Harrison & Co. farthing (BWS.6500). Fair-very fine, many rare to very rare. (116)
Estimate $500
SOLD $1,700
Ireland, Charles S Parnell M.P./Home rule medalet in brass (25mm) by W.T.Parkes, edge straight grained. Pierced for suspension, nearly uncirculated and extremely rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Ireland, medalets or jetons Daniel O'Connell in brass (22mm) (2 different) and (28mm) facing bust, all minted 1847. Church of England jetons (2) (22mm) minted in Belfast (N.P.O.42 and 44 Ann Street) and HRH Prince of Wales Opening of The New Parliament Buildings of Northern Ireland at Stormont N.P.O.Ltd Belfast (25mm). Visit of Edward VII to Ireland in 1903 in silver (32mm) by Spink and Son London. Fine-uncirculated. (7)
Estimate $90
SOLD $150
Daniel Eden Round Yr. Sun 1727, in brass (32mm) obverse facing sun reverse inscribed 24 (D&W-). Cast not struck, very fine and very rare.
Estimate $120
SOLD $210
Eden Theatre, Brighton, advertising check 1902-3 for the Grand Comic Pantomine in brass (40mm). Patchily toned otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $80
Canterbury (Theatre) in silver (38mm) undated but circa 1810, reverse inscribed 15 (D&W.3/21). Very fine and very rare.
Estimate $270
SOLD $340
Ireland, Theatre Royal (Cork), silver pass (37mm) made from a Spanish eight reales, circa 1760-1820, inscribed 'Richard Frankland Esq.' (D&W.- ). Toned very fine and very rare.
Estimate $180
SOLD $360
Theatre Royal Dublin, in copper (square flan, 36 x 36mm) undated but circa 1735-88 (D&W.4/27;MG. 381). Nearly very fine and very rare.
Estimate $300
SOLD $320
(Dublin), Theatre Royal, in copper (37mm) undated but circa 1790 (D&W 4/30). Traces of border lines on reverse, pierced for wear otherwise good very fine and rare.
Estimate $90
SOLD $180
(Dublin) Theatre Royal, undated in copper (37mm) (D&W.4/30). Good fine and rare.
Estimate $60
SOLD $110
Another, as previous. Also Theatre Royal Dublin around a crown in centre of a thin oval lead flan (33 x 30mm) (D&W.4/29). The second only fair but very rare, the first good fine. (2)
Estimate $90
SOLD $170
Crow Street (Theatre) Dublin, 1790, in copper (32mm) bracteate impression with William Williams in a circle with inner circle and dot (die struck) (D&W4/32). Another but for First Gallery, and date in outer circle reverse plain and stamped 270 (D&W.4/35). Good very fine; fine, the first very rare as such. (2)
Estimate $270
SOLD $420
(Ireland, Dublin) Theatre Smock Alley engraved in silver (38mm) inscribed 'Mr./John Long/Ticket' earlier name erased after Mr., undated but circa 1735-88 (D&W.-; MG.-). Very fine and extremely rare.
Estimate $300
SOLD $520
Dublin, Private Theatre, in copper (36mm) by Mossop reverse plain (D&W 5/41; cf M.5937). Undated but struck 1992-6. Overstruck on an engraved flan. Very fine and very rare, an unpublished variety.
Estimate $150
SOLD $210
Theatre Royal (Dublin) in white metal (36mm), by Mossop, undated but circa 1792, inscribed to 'J. Lambert Esqr.) 15' (D&W.-; MG.-). (The three graces design the same as D&W.5/44). Good fine and very rare.
Estimate $180
SOLD $210
Ipswich Theatre, 1803, in silver (39mm) 'No.11/Mr. S. Jackson.' (D&W.6/55; MG. 401). Pierced for wear, nearly fine and very rare.
Estimate $90
SOLD $440
Another, as previous but for Box (D&W.7/66). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $90
SOLD $160
Liverpool Theatre, Upper Box (D&W.7/67; M.5899) and Gally (D&W.7/69; M.5900) (illustrated). both in copper (34mm) and undated but circa 1805. Nearly very fine and rare. (2)
Estimate $180
SOLD $280