Corrections
and notes MB 51 Postal Auction - Tokens, tickets and passes
Simmons Gallery,
Lot 142 typo Campbell's Soup
Lot 144 typo Cronebane
Lot 152 reference Davis 9, (Mays 10)
Lot 153 reference Davis 5 (Mays 6)
Lot 171 is BUFS 5700
Lot 279 typo Devon's Road (with apostrophe)
Lot 306 typo should read - Crowson
Lot 343 reads RED COW INN (cow) TREORKY on token: reverse no wreath, large 3, beaded border 27mm. so Cox 864 not 862. Other references Todd. 195, Stanton 567a
Lot 406 condition should read gF - corrosion on reverse
Lot 408 typo Ramsgate
Lot 525 Burnhead not Burnside
Lot 545 from Elgin, ST stands for Sacramental token (not table)
Lot 557 Jedburgh is in Roxburghshire (not Northumberland - sorry!)
Lot 572 brass is Linktown, not Linlithgow
Lot 687 Not for a tramway but a parking meter token: we are informed that the translation from the Arabic reads Parking Token/Mayor's Office/Cairo
Lot 690 Not from El Salvador but from the city of Salvador, Bahia State in Brazil
Lot 714 Not Guatemala but COSTA RICA - we should have recognised the coat of arms!
Lot 715 Costa Cuca is a major coffee growing area in Guatemala and tokens are known for El Transito - issuer unrecorded
Lot 749 Not Portugal but Chile - a nitrate minte token Espinosa 307.8
Lot 865 USA - reference is Cunningham no. GA430b. (Military tokens of the United States, 1995 Vol. I) from which we quote/paraphrase: "Oglethorpe Barracks opened in 1821 and was in use off and on until the US Civil War when Confederate troops took it over. ...Reoccupied by Union troops in 1864. ....During the latter years of WWI it was a mobilisation centre. In 1917 War Prison Barracks Number 2 was established here, closing in 1918 when prisoners were transferred to Fort McPherson). "