AN AUCTION OF 18th Century British Trade Tokens The Richmond Suite (Lower Ground Floor) The Washington Hotel 5 Curzon Street Mayfair London W1J 5HE Wednesday 5 October 2011 10:00 Free Online Bidding Service www.dnw.co.uk AUCTION Weekdays, Monday and Tuesday, 19 and 20 September Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 30 September, 1 and 2 October 16 Bolton Street, Mayfair, London W1 strictly by appointment only We regret there will be NO viewing between 21 and 29 September Monday and Tuesday, 3 and 4 October 16 Bolton Street, Mayfair, London W1 Public viewing, 10:00 to 17:00 Wednesday 5 October 16 Bolton Street, Mayfair, London W1 Public viewing, 08:00 to end of the Sale Appointments to view: 020 7016 1700 or auctions @dnw.co.uk VIEWING Catalogued by Peter Preston-Morley Photography by Wioletta Madaj and Jan Starnes In sending commissions or making enquiries please contact Peter Preston-Morley Catalogue price £15 C ONTENTS Please note: Lots will be sold at a rate of approximately 150 per hour Session 1: 10.00 BST (Eastern DST 05.00; Pacific 02.00) 18th Century Tokens from the late David Griffiths Collection (Part I) ..............................................1-181 18th Century Tokens from the Dr Allen Bennett Collection..........................................................182-481 Numismatic Books.........................................................................................................................482-489 The Collection of Evasions formed by Neil Beaton.......................................................................490-506 Session 2: 14.00 BST (Eastern DST 09.00; Pacific 06.00) The late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection of 18th Century Tokens (Part III) ..............................573-956 18th Century Tokens from other properties.................................................................................957-1059 DNW BRITISH T OKEN A UCTIONS FOR 2012 Thursday, 9 February, 10.00 The late David Griffiths Collection (Part II): 17th Century Tokens of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Hampshire, Private Tokens of Numismatists Tokens associated with Samuel Pepys from the George Berry Collection Tokens from the Collections formed by the late Alfred Bole and the late Ernest Danson Wednesday, 3 October, 13.00 The Important Collection of 18th Century Tokens formed by the late Robinson S. Brown Jr (Part IV): Wales, Scotland, Ireland and duplicates The late David Griffiths Collection (Part III): 18th Century Tokens, Norfolk to Yorkshire The Frank Gorsler Collection of 19th Century Shilling and Penny Tokens INVESTMENT GOLD The symbol G adjacent to a lot indicates that, if purchased by a VAT-registered trader, he or she may claim back the VAT element on the buyers’ premium from HM Revenue and Customs. The Washington Hotel is located at 5 B E R O Curzon Street, in the heart of London’s K E L L A D S E L Y B Q B O Mayfair, two minutes walk from DNW’s T U E E A R N E D R R M T E D A S offices. S O R T L L R IL V E H E E R S E T T S R The auction takes place in the hotel’s T B R E Dix Noonan Webb E E E R E T 16 Bolton St K T Richmond Suite on the lower ground E L E The Washington Hotel Y S floor, access to which is via a short flight of T 5 Curzon Street R S E T E ST R T S stairs leading from the hotel restaurant. ES A T RL T CHA B T J O O A N M C LT L O S E The hotel is a 3-minute walk from the ET A S RE R N T ST G S S N H E T T RZO A S nearest Underground station, Green Park CU LF S M T Y O L O IL (Piccadilly, Jubilee and Victoria Lines, with N D S A T C IC Green Park P links directly to Euston, King’s Cross, (Piccadilly, Victoria andd Jubilee lines) Victoria [for Gatwick Airport] and Waterloo E TH stations). It is a 40-minute direct journey Green Park from Heathrow Airport. C ONSTITUTION HILL Numerous buses stop at Green Park station. Hyde Park There is limited meter parking in Curzon Corner Street and nearby streets. DIX N O ONAN WEBB DNW A uctione ers & Valuers L IVE I NTERNET B IDDING IN DNW ROSTRUM A UCTIONS DNW’s live internet bidding service is FREE and fully integrated into the company website and back office systems. You may bid in real time, with lots appearing on your computer screen as they are being sold and a live audio feed is provided so that you can listen to the auctioneer. Existing clients may use the service by logging in, but if you are new to us you should ideally register at least 24 hours prior to the start of the auction using the registration facility on our web site. To bid, select the current sale on the Coin Department home page and click on the Live Bidding link. You will need to log in before bidding if you have not already done so. For further details please call us on +44 (20) 7016 1700 or email [email protected]. S ALEROOM N OTICES Any saleroom notices pertaining to this auction are automatically posted at the head of the InterNews section on the coin part of the DNW website, www.dnw.co.uk. Prospective bidders are strongly urged to consult this facility before sending bids or bidding online. B UYERS’PREMIUM Please note that the buyers’ premium in this sale is 20%. C ATALOGUE I LLUSTRATIONS AND THE I NTERNET Prospective bidders are reminded that the DNW website carries enhanced high-resolution enlarged colour illustrations of all the items illustrated in this catalogue, and almost all other lots of manageable size are also depicted. B IDDING IN DNW AUCTIONS We are pleased to accept bids for items in this auction by several methods, apart from the FREE live internet facility detailed above. A commission form is enclosed with this catalogue for your convenience; this should be completed and mailed to us so that we receive it by the day before the auction. Bids can also be faxed on this form to +44 (20) 7016 1799 up to 18.00 on 4 October. If you are an established DNW client you may bid by email to [email protected] (we strongly advise that you request email confirmation that your bids have been received before the start of the auction); or you may telephone your bids to us up to 17.00 on 4 October. Alternatively you may bid directly via the Members’ Enclosure on the DNW website until 08.00 on 5 October. Bids placed electronically after that time will not be recognised. V IEWING All the lots in this auction are available to view, strictly by appointment only, at 16 Bolton Street, on 19 and 20 September and from 30 September to 2 October. All appointments to view MUST be made with the Coin Department by telephoning 020 7016 1700 and we regret no viewing will be possible between 21 and 29 September inclusive.Thepublicviewisat Bolton Street on 3 and 4 October, from 10.00 to 17.00, and on the auction day, 5 October, from 08.00 until the end of the Sale. P RICES R EALISED The hammer prices bid at DNW auctions are posted on the Internet at www.dnw.co.uk in real time. A full list of prices realised appear on our website after 18.00 on each auction day and a resumé of each auction is posted on the website the following day. Telephone enquiries are welcome from 09.00 the following morning. Separate printed price lists are no longer issued. David Brandon Griffiths (1940-2011) avid Griffiths was born in Conway, North Wales, on 8 November 1940, moving to London D when he was five. Like many expatriates, he became very keen to retain his links with his mother country, and in addition to representing it at athletics in sprint events, he realised how interesting it was to link local history with collecting. Initially he collected Welsh 17th century tokens, triggered by the 1973 publication of George Boon’s book on the subject. But, finding out how much individual 17th century tokens cost and, encouraged by Monica Bussell (1906-74) at Seaby’s, David decided to start collecting Welsh 18th century tokens, principally Anglesey. He put together what is believed to be the largest collection of these pieces ever assembled. David soon expanded his 17th century token interests to cover Hertfordshire, of which county his collection is the largest of its kind ever formed, and other counties, in particular Middlesex, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Lincolnshire, Rutland and Shropshire. His collection of 18th century tokens covers all counties, with a particularly large group of Middlesex tokens, and his smaller 19th century collection includes tickets, checks and medals. Having dispersed his library of token literature in these rooms a year ago, David’s token collection, the subject of 38 years of dedicated collecting, will feature in a group of auctions staged by DNW over the coming years, beginning here with his 18th century tokens of the counties from Bedfordshire to Middlesex, 359 pieces in total. Among them are excellent representations of Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, his local areas, along with a good run of issues associated with Robert Orchard, the Sawbridgeworth brewer, and David Alves Rebello, the Jewish merchant domiciled in Hackney. There are a number of silver proofs and particularly good groups of the extensive issues made for the quack chemist Basil Burchell from London’s Long Acre and the bookseller James Lackington, based at Finsbury Square.