Catalogue
Birmingham, brass spade guinea and half guinea imitations with 'In Memory of the Good Old Days' in distributor's card box with printed label 'one gross spade Half- Guinea No5034 Card Counters' all dated 1788. Extremely fine. (approx 100)
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
Various checks and medalets, includes shipping passenger ticket in wm (40mm) steerage to Greenock (D & W -) (surface patina blistered). Army contractors 2 A(nna)s institutes Credit. Ticket square in brass, A. Russell Ltd Stirling Polmaise Collieries 3:4 Pits Ackroyd & Best, Morley, Leeds in brass (40mm), W.S. Lincoln stamp album 1897 by H.Grueber, Victoria Royal Mint weights 1843 (2), The Kings Rifle Corps 1/2 (penny) check (24mm) in bronze, The Navy League (3, one gilt) 8th May 1943 and 1914- 15 memos of Egypt (both in brass), Calendar medals (2) Royal Life Saving medal in silver (28mm) 1925. All in small box. Fair- extremely fine. (51)
Estimate $200
SOLD $250
Charles I, (1625-1649), Marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria in 1625, silver medalet, probably by N. Briot, 23mm, obv. busts facing of Charles and Henrietta, celestial rays above, rev. Cupid walking right, 1625 in exergue, (Eimer 105, M.I. i, 238/1). Grey tone, very fine and scarce.
Estimate $80
SOLD $120
Oliver Cromwell, Memorial medal in copper 37mm, by J.Dassier, (Eimer 203, M.I. i, 435/87); together with a cast copy of Cromwell pattern sixpence, 1658, (cf.ESC 1504). Extremely fine; good fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $110
William and Mary, silver Coronation medal, 1689, 35mm, (Eimer 312, M.I,i 662/25). Brilliant extremely fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $360
Anne, copper medal, 1709, Capture of Mons, 40mm, rev. Victory flying left over city. (Eimer 440, M.I,ii 362/202); cast copy, silver farthing, 1713, (cf.P.747/737 mule, unlisted in P, from obv.4, rev.C). Extremely fine; fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $220
George III, Coronation of George III and Queen Charlotta, in silver 41mm, 1761, by J. Kirk?, obv. bust of George III to right, rev. bust of Queen Charlotta to right, (Eimer 692, BHM 30). Good very fine and very scarce.
Estimate $200
SOLD $260
The Peace of Paris (1814) in bronzed bronze (54mm) by T. Wyon Jr. and Halliday (BHM 803). Waterloo brass boxes (3), containing miniature medals (10mm) (7). Duke of Wellington brass pill box with British Victories in the Peninsula miniature medals (16mm) (19) and a 3d to 2/6 coin box circa 1910. The first with minor surface marks lacquered, otherwise nearly FDC and rare, the others fine- very fine. (6)
Estimate $200
SOLD $500
George IV, Coronation of George IV, in copper 35mm, 1821, by B. Pistrucci, obv. bust of George IV to left, rev. George being crowned by Victory etc., (Eimer 1146, BHM 1070). Extremely fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $220
Queen Victoria- George VI, various coronation and Jubilee medals by the Royal Mint 1897 in bronze (2, one card) 1902 cased, small zinc silver 1897 (2), 1902 (3), 1911 (2), 1935 (2, one cased) 1937 (2, one the military award with ribbon) (2 in bronze), also large 1897 in wm, medium in wm, British Empire Exhibition in bronze 1924 (cased), bronze (39mm) by J. Moore 1887 (cased) and the Bell Medal in bronze (38mm) miniature rifle clubs; City Boys School Leicester in bronze (39mm), Scott 1827 in bronze by Stothard, William III in bronze (40mm) by Dassier and France, Paris Mint in bronze (51mm) by Oudine for Centenary of 1789 (cased). Fine- uncirculated. (25)
Estimate $300
SOLD $420