Corrections and notes MB 51 Postal Auction - Tokens, tickets and passes

Simmons Gallery, London 31 March 2010

updated 25 March 2010 with thanks to all contributors!!

 

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). "