302 pages with 7 plates. Casebound with Jacket. First published in 1986. This catalogue is the first publication in over one hundred years to list all known major types of the seventeenth century series of token coinage issued in the British Isles between 1648 and 1679.

A board game once popular throughout the Roman Empire used small leaden counters that often depicted aspects of Roman life such as gladiators, gods, emperors and sacrificial altars. A few centuries later similar leaden discs bearing images of early saints were carried across Europe by Christian pilgrims as souvenirs commemorating visits to holy shrines. In medieval East Anglia yet more pieces embellished with portraits of choir boys dressed as bishops were thrown to crowds as free meal tickets. And right across England, whenever low denomination currency became scarce, people used coin-like castings of lead as token farthings if they needed change for a silver penny. Other curious uses served in the past by small mouldings of lead and pewter included admission tickets to Holy Communion services, passes to gain access to brothels or to cross bridges, tallies for all manner of work done on farms, such as picking hops in Kent or shearing sheep in Hardys Wessex. Lead pieces have also seen use in English games - most strangely as missiles thrown at tethered hens, a pastime that later developed into the less bloodthirsty game of shycocks. These uses and many more are lavishly illustrated and fully described in this fascinating book. The text ranges far and wide to tell the stories; the photographs show several hundred images of leaden tokens and tallies from every age. They cast much needed light on a group of collectable artefacts about which little has been written until now. This book is the third in Edward Fletchers popular Tokens & Tallies series. 780 illustrations.Contents: Introduction - Acknowledgements - A Note To Paranumismatists - In The Beginning - The Anglo-French Connection - Early English Tokens - The Boy Bishop Phenomenon - Tokens And Tallies After 1400 - Tudor Tokens and Tallies - Post-Tudor Developments - Agricultural Tallies: 17th-19th century - Communion Tokens - Shycocks - Moulds - A Brief Look At Cloth & Bag Seals - Collecting & Researching - Some Puzzling Pieces.

There is no universally accepted agreement on what is or is not a token, nor even a tally. In this book the terms token and tally mainly cover those metal objects for which there is some historical or archaeological evidence that they served either as substitutes for denominations of legal money in short supply, or as a means of recording promised payments and services due, or as a method of keeping account of time, of possessions, of work output, or of the many other things humans felt a need to count and record. The accompanying texts and illustrations serve as an introduction to each category. The recommended bibliographies should put readers on the road to expertise in all of these fascinating series. 100 pages (250mm x 190mm) ISBN 1 897738 161. CHAPTER HEADINGS: Ancient Tallies & Tokens - Early English Tokens & Imitations - Medieval Jettons - Medieval Tokens - 17th Century Tokens - 18th Century Tokens - Communion Tokens - 19th Century base Metal & Silver Tokens - Unofficial Farthings & Other 19th Century Advertising Issues - Pub Checks - Work, Play & Games - Market Traders Tallies - Tokens & Tallies In 19th & Early 20th Century Agriculture - Control In The Workplace.

The massive social changes that took place during 1850-1950 are reflected on the designs of the small pieces of brass, copper, lead, plastic or embossed card used in the manufacture of these intriguing items of paranumismatica, with issuers ranging from public houses to chapels and co-operative establishments. With over 700 photographs covering much of the range of rare and not-so-rare tokens available to the collector, this book is an invaluable source of information to both the beginner and experienced collector alike. Chapter headings: Introduction - Makers - Advertising - Regal Images - Calendars - Agricultural Tallies - Co-op - Bonus - Club - Pub - Temperance - Refreshment - Canteen - Teaching - Market - Gaming - Newspapers - Transport - Industry - Countermarks - Military & Wartime - Plastics - Further Reading.

Sanderstead 1986. The concept of pilgrimage, providing as it does the opportunity to contemplate some of the fundamental truths of life, is in no way restricted either to Christianity or to the Medieval period. So, the present study is concerned with only one small part of this human experience. In many respects the period that extended from Thomas Becket's martyrdom in 1170 until Henry VIII abolished the shrines during the late 1530's marked the heyday of pilgrimage in England. Concepts and preferences evolved and changed within this time span, as will be apparent in this book. Badges were popular pilgrim signs, but the same period also saw widespread popular use of badges with purely secular characteristics. The present study has therefore been extended beyond the pilgrim scene to embrace the field of contemporary secular badges and some forms of other ornamental dress fittings. Personal preference also evolved in this sphere through the course of time and the influence of the Wars of the Roses on the form of secular retainers' badges should not be underestimated. As recently as 1968 it was possible ot write that only about 1300 medieval pilgrim signs had been found in England. Since then the use of the metal detector has considerably increased that number. The badges catalogued here have been acquired by the author principally from finds made by a group of metal detector enthusiasts, popularly known as 'mudlarks', who belong to the restricted group possessing official licences to dig the Thames foreshaw in London. These items provide a representative picture of the badges lost by London's medieval inhabitabts and they also tell us something of their everyday life and of their travels to shrines, both near and far. 288 pages, over 1,100 badges illustrated. Casebound.

1811-1820 including those of Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Llanfyllin 1999. 264 pages, fully illustrated in text. Cloth.

Foreign silver coins countermarked for use in Great Britain, c.1787-1828. (BNS Special Publication No.3). 2001. xx, 308 pages, illustrations in text; 55 plates. Casebound. Jacket.

The David Rogers collection. 2000. 72 pages, illustrations throughout. Card covers.Lead weights have been widely used in Britain for about 2000 years, but very little has been written about them. This collection, formed by the late David Rogers, is by far the largest and most important collection yet published. Nearly 300 items are arranged, described and illustrated. Among the highlights are: 13 rare pre-Conquest weights with embedded coins, metalwork and amber. 54 shield-shaped weights. 22 early coin and bullion weights. 12 weights stamped by the Plumbers Company of London. 34 weights of the Norwich series. The introduction to the catalogue provides the background to the use of lead weights, together with a metrological summary. Each section has an introduction summarising the known facts and giving appropriate references.

1999. (6)iv, 580 pages, including 133 plates. casebound. Nearly 8,000 pieces listed. When Les Burzinski attended the 1999 Token Congress in Carlisle he had with him the first copy of his book, straight off the press. It must be rare for an author to publish a first volume at the age of 80. After a severe setback to his enthusiasm a few years ago, when his wife and his brother died within months of each other, it is an astonishment and a delight to see Les's dream a reality. Unfortunately he was not well at Carlisle, and two months later he took severely ill at home with a stroke. Like O.D. Cresswell's (1985) Comprehensive Directory of World Communion Tokens, now out of print, this is an alphabetical listing based on the place name or other legend on each communion token. The general layout of the two books is similar, though there is no index of ministers now. Details are given of legends and other features, size and shape, named ministers and where each token was used. There are 7730 entries, compared with 6533 in Cresswell, partly on account of the treatment of varieties. References are given to Cresswell and to original sources, including recent publications, in which fuller details of the tokens may be found. A major attraction is the very large number of tokens illustrated, many for the first time, with photographs of specimens from the author's collection. This will be particularly useful for anyone who does not have access to earlier sources. position; so it is worth searching forward and backwards for them.

London, 1994. 152 pages, illustrations throughout. Card covers. This catalogue is primarily concerned with Wellington's image on medals produced in the nineteenth century, since when few have been made and most of those in the last twenty-five years, it also includes for the first time, references to his portrait on token coinage.

British Isles Circa 1558 to 1830. Sanderstead 1998.590 pages, profusely illustrated throughout, valuations. Casebound.

Crystal Palace Medals and Tokens 1851-1936. London 2000. 276 pages, illustrated throughout. Laminated boards. Numismatically speaking, there were four English Crystal Palaces: that of the Great Exhibition, Hyde Park 1851; the Crystal Palace at Sydenham 1852-1936; the Crystal Palace for the Exhibition of Art Treasures at Manchester 1857 and the Crystal Palace for the International Exhibition at Kensington 1862. All are covered in this the first work ever devoted entirely to Crystal Palace medals and tokens.The place of the Crystal Palaces in the historical record is secure. This book conveys the magnificence of these crystal giants and also the horror of the destruction of the Sydenham Crystal Palace by fire in 1936. Leslie Lewis Allen saw the glory of the fire in the night sky as a boy; it was this which led to his interest in Crystal Palace collecting.This book will fascinate all with an interest in history and medals. It is indispensable for collectors, dealers and academics. Includes over 800 illustrations of all the official medals and many unofficial medals and tokens. Comprehensive price guide and full general index.

1600-1672. London 1988. 336 pages, including 115 b/w plates, 8 colour plates and 52 in text illustrations. Cloth, full colour jacket.The British Museum has one of the finest collections of French medals in existence and this volume covers the highpoint both of its collection and of French medallic art: the work of such artists as Guillaume Dupré, Jean and Claude Warin, Pierre Regnier and Nicolas Briot. Their medals are amongst the most beautiful and historically important works of art produced in France during the first three-quarters of the seventeenth-century, yet this is the first major publication devoted to their work for over half a century and the first ever to eal with the period as a whole. The catalogue entries provide a detailed visual and physical description of every medal in he British Museum, complemented and completed by a black-and-white illustration, a discussion of the context in which the piece was made and where appropriate of its iconography and attribution, a list of comparable exapmples in other public collections and bibliographical references. Extensive new biographies of each major artist precede the section devoted to their work.In the introduction the author places the whole phenomenon of medal making in seventeenth century France within a broad historical context. He examines the market for medals, their function and status, meaning and form, reception and collection, demonstrating both their central place in the intellectual climate of the time and their role in crystallising and reflecting the growing cultural and political confidence of the French elite. The preparation of this catalogue provided the opportunity for the first scientific analysis of a major group of seventeenth-century medals. Duncan Hook, in his appendix, sets out the results of that analysis and discusses their significance. Mark Jones is an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum.

From the fifteenth to the nineteenth-century. Studies in Numismatic Literature No.1. 2001. 88 pages, 16 plates. Clothbound with d/w. Originally published in book form in 1985 by Leo S. Olschki of Florence in Italian, this edition, translated by Elizabeth Saville, has been carefully revised and updated by the author. It is a delightful collection of easily read scholarly essays, written from both a numismatic and bibliophilic perspective. These essays will be of considerable interest to anyone interested in the literature of numismatics, particularly its landmark works. A great many of the earliest numismatic books were printed in Italy, and Dr. Bassoli does not neglect significant works printed in other countries, ranging from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Starting off with a lengthy chapter on “Sixteenth century numismatics”, the author also discusses, among other topics, classical numismatics in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century, numismatic bibliography from its origins in 1850, classic works on Italian coins and medals, and the utility of coin auction catalogues. “Libraries of interest to the numismatist”, and a general bibliography are followed by author and publisher indexes. Dr. Bassoli’s work is the first in a projected series of publications devoted to the study of numismatic literature published jointly by George Frederick Kolbe and Spink & Son Ltd.

1999. 170 pages, 32 plates. Cloth. 500 copies only of this edition printed.An expensive book, carefully printed in a numbered limited edition on mouldmade paper at the Bird & Bull Press of Newtown Pennsylvania and written by an author who has a name synonymous with all things American, yet claims he has Indian blood. These are all the ingredients for a long overdue book that is the complete rethink on the Indian Peace medals issued during the reign of George III. No one has ever been any the wiser as to the real reason why the medals were issued in their various forms and sizes, yet Adams has tackled the issue with an open mind, and whilst he criticises most of the earlier writers on the subject, he too does drift into the realms of possibility and probability. The difference is that he usually differentiates between hard fact and hearsay. The approach is fresh, well studied and personal - Adams has not produced a book that is a mere description alongside a reference number, his is a book to be read for the wealth of information it contains.

The property of a Gentleman. Spink auction No. 1133. Tuesday, 21st May 1996. 334 pages, 554 lots, all photographed. Card covers.This collection, consisting of 527 medals and 70 plaquettes; one of the largest collections in private hands, begun in 1963, was formed with enthusiasm and discernment. This assemblage displays a leaning towards Renaissance, Mannerism and the Baroque but every piece has been acquired either as a work of art or to illuminate other works of art, often both. A highly valuable reference. Sold with list of prices realised.

Commemorative and Historical Medals from 1750 to 1947 562 pages, over 500 pieces illustrated throughout the text, bound in cloth with dustwrapper. Benefiting from extensive research in the Calcutta and Bombay mints this work charts the medallic history of the British Empire in India and Burma, from the mid-1700’s to 1947, featuring more than 1200 medals, 500 of which are illustrated, commemorating or acknowledging events, personages, institutions and significant milestones and achievements of the Raj. Many medals of the Princely States are included especially if there is a particular British interest. Hundreds of new medals were uncovered through the author’s research in the Indian mints and are detailed here for the first time. Medals issued by, and on behalf of, Kings & Queens, Maharajahs, governments, viceroys, durbars, universities, colleges, schools, exhibitions, associations and societies, are all described in detail along with the rarity and value of each medal.Far from just a catalogue of medals this work delves into the history of the persons and places found on British India medals and provides background information on the events and happenings depicted. Essays placed throughout the book draw together information on more than twenty-five subjects including: Royal Visits to British India (more than 50 medals for royal visits between 1869 and 1921), Exhibitions and Shows (more than 100 medals), Parsis in India (more than 50 medals), Viceroy Presentation Medals (17 Viceroy medals are illustrated with much new information), Agricultural & Horticultural Societies, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Railway Medals, Chief’s Colleges, Photography in India, and many more including an essay on, Durbars, Titles, Customs, Caste & Ceremonies, as they relate to medals. The major universities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras are represented by more than 200 medals with strong representation by other universities, schools and colleges. Numerous medals illustrate Royal Jubilees and other royal events, medical subjects, art societies, famous persons and rulers of princely states. An extremely detailed general index is included along with an index of medallists, designers, engravers, die cutters, artists, makers, publishers and mints.

Catalogue of a private collection of books, magazines, articles and various writings from the sixteenth to the twentieth century related to the art of the medal, concerning mainly Italy, with explanatory notes by Dr. Roberto Ginocchi. Rome 1997. 816 pages, describing 2,508 items. 73 plates, indexes. Cloth, laminated jacket in colour.Contents: Introduction; Foreword; Brief history of works on the medal; Notes on the use of the catalogue and Abbreviations in English and Italian. Critical comments on each book in Italian. This work is an important bibliography on the subject.

1783-1855. Cambridge 1996. 134 pages, illustrated throughout, some in colour. Card covers. The fruit of 30 years research, this handy book covers the history of one of our most outstanding engravers.

Sylloge of coins of the British Isles (SCBI), volume 31. 1575-1750. Bedfordshire to Devon. 1984. Xl, pages; 35 fine plates, each with descriptive text. Cloth. Mrs Emery May Norweb has been interested in coins since about 1905, and has built up a remarkable collection, with particular strengths in North and South American pieces, and since 1953 English. She has been active in the American Numismatic Society, and was, from 1962 to 1971, President of the Cleveland Museum of Art. On loan to the Museum from the Norweb collection is some splendid pre-Columbian art, and a very fine series of English gold coins, ancient to modern, of which a catlogue was published by the Cleveland Museum in 1968. Mrs Norweb's Ancient British, Romano-British, and English coins to 1180 were published as volume 16 of the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, and additional pieces acquired between 1971 and 1980 were