SIMMONS GALLERY PO BOX 104, LEYTONSTONE, LONDON E11 1ND, UK TEL: 020 8989 8097 (International + 44 20 8989 8097) Email [email protected] (no fax) Illustrated online catalogue at www.simmonsgallery.co.uk MAILBID MB94 Bid Auction of Tokens The collection of Welsh Tokens formed by Emyr George including his Shropshire Tavern Tokens Closing date for bids Wednesday 30 September 2020 at 12 noon BST Tokens, checks and passes 18th century tokens, 19th century silver and copper tokens Pub & refreshment checks, industry checks, Mining and colliery checks, political & working men’s clubs, and other tokens from UK and beyond. Online viewing www.simmonsgallery.co.uk or by appointment Buyer’s premium 5% including VAT at standard rate on all lots Preamble Emyr George was a dairy farmer from Wales, a collector of all things Welsh, amiable and passionate about his hobby. He co-wrote Shropshire Tavern Tokens with Neil Todd and Andrew Cunningham. Emyr was a great one for swapping his tokens with others, buying lots, and then exchanging them for tokens he needed for his collection. This is why we find stray English, Scottish and occasional overseas tokens scattered amongst the Welsh. We tried in our last auction in June to separate these non-Welsh out but there are thousands of tokens and it will take us several sales to offer them all. So we’re only up to Glamorgan in the pub checks and up to C in the mining alphabetically. There’s lots more to come and Howard used lockdown well to catalogue them. We’re selling on behalf of the family so please, to those who’ve already asked, all tokens are offered at auction. Changes in the way we all work and updated technology mean that we have made a new Simmons Gallery website for the auctions and for direct sales. The other thing is that we are getting older (like everyone else) and are trying to streamline the business so Frances doesn’t have such a huge admin workload in the future and we can continue for a while longer. If you haven’t given us your email address yet, please do so in order that we can continue to let you know what’s happening and when. All bidding will be done online and you will need to register to bid and give yourself a user name (this is masked with first and last characters only shown). If you do not have access to the internet, we can bid on your behalf as long as we receive instructions at least the day before, so you won’t lose out with the new system (see note re. Frances and admin above). Do use the key word and category search facility online once that is live - there are crossovers between the categories especially on place names and themes; you may miss things otherwise. There are a few changes, principally in the step increments for bidding. In the future bids will increase in the following way: £1-£20 £1 increments £20-£40 £2 increments £40-£100 £5 increments £100 onwards £10 increments. The auction uses proxy bidding so that you only see the current winning bid, not someone’s maximum bid (think eBay). There won’t be tied bids in the future - if someone else has bid your maximum before you, they win unless we have your instruction to increase your bid by a set number of increments e.g. 1 or 2. There’s no third party sniping facility but of course you can bid up to (almost) the closing time online. Although we’re testing the auction system, there is a Plan B in case of glitches when we go live. Ever cautious. But please be patient! And wait for the invoice once the auction is over please. The buyer’s premium remains at 5%. The price online is the reserve if no bids registered. We reckon this is roughly half estimated price but loads of these tokens are seriously rare and known from only 1 or 2 examples. We’re grateful for the assistance of certain collectors for their expertise. The Welsh pub checks follow the Cox brothers work: Pub Checks of Wales 2005. Other Welsh tokens can be found in Cox Tokens, Checks, Metallic tickets, passes and tallies of Wales 1800-1993. Those tokens starting with numbers over 2000 are from volume 2, (2012) and many of these recorded examples belong to Emyr. The majority of tokens in this listing are very modestly priced and you may need to be brave if you really want a certain token. Emyr sometimes paid into three figures for some of these. So bid high, and bid early please! All best wishes from us both in these strange times Howard and Frances Simmons, Simmons Gallery Ltd Terms & Conditions of Sale General terms: All items are guaranteed genuine as described. Prices realised are sent after the sale to bidders and available for download from www.simmonsgallery.co.uk Buyer’s premium on all lots is 5%. including VAT at standard rate. Postal /online auction: Closing date for bids is Wednesday 30 September 2020, 12 noon BST. You need to register before you can bid online - your user name will be masked showing only the first and last letter or digit. We will continue to accept postal and telephone bids for customers without access to the internet - non internet bids must be received by 29 September noon latest, but please bid online if you can. (thank you!) All telephone bids must be confirmed in writing. We bear no responsibility for bids not being received, nor for the late arrival of any bids. The first price in the catalogue is the reserve (res) as well as the starting price (same online); bids will be refused below this. The second price is an estimate (est) but you may need to bid higher to secure a lot. Postage is added to orders at cost. Goods sent by tracked insured mail wherever possible. Payment: Payment is due on receipt of our invoice, goods are sent out when we receive payment. We accept cash, sterling cheques and bank transfers. Payments from abroad should be in GB pounds sterling drawn on a UK bank. We accept PayPal, credit cards (Visa, MasterCard) and UK debit cards via Stripe online. If you wish to pay by card please put your card details on the bid-sheet (card number, expiry date, last 3 numbers on signature strip) and name and address as written on your card and statements and sign your bid sheet before posting to us. Successful bids can then be sent out without delay which speeds up transactions to the advantage of all. Do not send credit card details by email. Photographs: Look on www.simmonsgallery.co.uk under Auction for illustrations or contact us by email. GDPR: Please contact us if you wish to unsubscribe from future mailings or only to receive emailings from us. Full statement on data privacy is on our website under Terms and Conditions. Grading & other abbreviations: EF Extremely Fine nVF near or almost Very VF+ Very Fine or better gVF better than Very Fine VF Very Fine (normal wear) Fine eks edge nicks VG very good, G good ctm. countermark RRR extremely rare AR silver Zn Zinc - Al Aluminium CuNi Cupro-Nickel RR very rare AE bronze Pb Lead Br. Brass YH Young Head r. right KM Krause Mischler World ek - edge nick l. left Coins book References: We use the standard reference acronyms and works e.g. Williamson, DH Dalton & Hamer, Withers Token Books, British Coin Weights, Burzinski on Communion Tokens, , Token Corresponding Soc. Bulletin (TCSB), Cox, Todd. If in doubt, ask. General notes: Sale organised by Simmons Gallery Ltd, Directors H. W. Simmons, M.Sc. F. M. Simmons Registered number 1612141 England Registered office 34-40 High Street, Wanstead, London E11 2RJ All post/bids/payments please send direct to PO Box 104, London E11 1ND, UK and not to the registered office. WELSH TOKENS TICKETS & PASSES and other properties Description res est MB9 18th century tokens Anglesey 229, Druid Penny 1788 nF Rare variety 10 20 4-001 MB9 North Wales 7, Druid rev. harp 1/2d 1793 gF 5 10 4-002 MB9 Carmarthenshire 7, Carmarthen Iron Works, I Morgan industrial scenes gEF much lustre 60 120 4-003 MB9 Carmarthenshire 7, Carmarthen Iron Works, I Morgan industrial scenes gVF touches of 20 40 4-004 lustre MB9 Glamorganshire 3a, Justin Ap Gwrgan portrait l. rev. Britannia 1795 1/2d EF brown 15 30 4-005 MB9 Glamorganshire 4, Castle rev. John Voss Draper key 1796 1/2d UNC bright 80 160 4-006 MB9 Monmouthshire 1, Abergavenny, James Powell, 1/2d 1795 cask Edge PAYABLE AT 50 100 4-007 MONMOUTH AND ABERGAVENNY gEF some lustre MB9 Monmouthshire 3, Monmouth, James Powell, 1/2d 1795 cask Edge PAYABLE AT 20 40 4-008 MONMOUTH AND ABERGAVENNY gVF MB9 Pembrokeshire 1, St. Davids, Medallion of St David bust r. rev. feathers in shield 1793 7 14 4-009 1/4d gF MB9 Somerset 26, Bristol 1/- Aug 12 1811 City badge Silver plated nVF contemporary 10 20 4-010 forgery MB9 19th century silver tokens Brecknockshire 1, George North General Waggon 20 40 4-011 Warehouse 1/- not dated robe rev. inscription F/VG holed MB9 Brecknockshire 1, George North General Waggon Warehouse 1/- not dated robe rev. 20 40 4-012 inscription silver plated brass, contemporary counterfeit gF MB9 Carmarthenshire 1, Morris & Sons bankers 1/- 1811 cockerel nVF 50 100 4-013 MB9 Flintshire 1, Flintshire Bank JOS&O , obv.