MAILBID
44 POSTAL AUCTION
TOKENS & PASSES
Closing
date for bids
Tuesday
10 JUNE 2008 12 noon BST.
SIMMONS GALLERY
PO BOX 104, LEYTONSTONE, LONDON E11 1ND,
UK
Featuring
General British and World Tokens, tickets and passes, Isle of
Man rarities
A collection of Scottish Communion tokens
Part IV Andrew Macmillan Collection - Religious Medals and Tokens
Where to begin? There's lots of interesting
stuff here, sacred and profane, but because we've incorporated at least 3
collections into this sale you will need to go through the catalogue thoroughly
as there are strays dotted around. We start conventionally enough with British
lead tokens and trade tokens, followed by tickets and passes and specific
themes. We have more Isle of Man than usual, a good run of French shell cards
for maisons de plaisance or bordels which we translate as brothel tokens -
the British make no distinction whereas the French do apparently. A general
collection has been consigned to us (lots 535-635) which forms a mini-catalogue
in its own right. From another collector is an interesting offering of Scottish
Communion tokens (411-534). Evangelical tokens, charity tokens church money
and commemorative medals form the fourth and final part of Andrew Macmillan's
great collection plus a relisting of his unsold foreign communion tokens (from
lot 636-end). These are mainly but not exclusively Presbyterian and include
a very rare brooch for the Disruption (lot 716)
commemorating the split from the Church
of Scotland in 1843 of the Moderator and 474 ministers who resigned their
livings.
If you’re new to this type of sale,
please read our terms and conditions of sale.
Remember there’s no buyer’s commission and we reduce
bids to 10% over the next bidder. If
you’re the only bidder you get the lot at the first price, which is our reserve. Photos of some of the tokens, especially the
rarities and the more pictorial ones, will be here on the website. Prices realised are sent to all bidders whether
successful or not. We hope you enjoy looking through the catalogue and find
pieces that you must have for your own collection. Good luck and send in your bids as early as
you can!
Howard and Frances Simmons
*** To
navigate your way through the catalogue - click on the blue
underlined text in the index box to get to the relevant page. Underlined
tokens in the catalogue will link to an image page. To get
back to your place in the text, click on the image or use the page back facility
on your browser. Please let us know of any errors or missing links. Thank you!
A word about the layout please use the index below to get around
the catalogue. As to prices - the first column of prices is the starting price
or reserve, the second is our estimate of what we think the token will sell
for.
Corrections
and addenda to the printed catalogue. We've altered the online text with the
corrections.
Background
essay on Scottish communion tokens
Bound
copies of MB36 Chambers collection, including the unofficial farthings and
all the lists of the Farm & Market checks with prices realised, are
available at £5 plus postage from Simmons Gallery