Rob

There is one obverse and one reverse uniface.

DAY, H G C One sale in 1902, and a second collection was purchased by Baldwin c1935. This ticket came from the latter portion.

LAWRENCE, L A L A Lawrence was a well known figure in numismatics for over fifty years covering the first half of the 20th century. The tickets shown in the BNJ show wildly different styles of writing, so a letter from Lawrence is also included to show a wider range of characters of a style he may have used.

SEABY, H A A ticket in the handwriting of the founder of the company, Bert Seaby. Top line is the Bulletin reference, selling price is at the bottom, and acquisition details shown as the fraction lower right. The reverse is blank.The ticket has a hint of a greenish hue, but tickets of many colours are known over time.Ticket diameter 32-33mm, other sizes are known.

LOCKETT, R C Lockett's collection of hammered British coins was sold at Glendining in 5 sales between 1955 and 1961. His collection of milled coins was sold in 1927. The BNJ entry states the tickets were 29-30mm diameter, but the three illustrated below are 26, 33 and 44 mm, so it is safe to say they can be any size. All the tickets I have seen have been on grey card, though tickets are also known where those of the previous owner have been annotated by Lockett. The reverse can be either blank, or annotated with the acquisition details or other references.

MONTAGU, H Hyman Montagu put together what was arguably the best collection of British coins assembled by an individual before his untimely death in Feb. 1895 at the age of 50. No tickets are known that can be attributed to him, so the only example of handwriting that I can positively attribute to him is shown. The dedication to his daughter is in the front of a first edition copy of his Copper book, published in 1885 and presumably contemporary.

I don't undersand why so many people appear to hoard these copies by burying them. If you want them to be out of sight and out of mind, surely the large grey hidey-hole on wheels that gets emptied every week or two would suffice?

No E on breast, so not the commonest type, but a bit OTT on the starting price!

I have my suspicions

We could do with someone with more powers to edit here. Nordle doesn't seem to come on much and nor does Chris. Stuart suggested putting it on my site which would be possible to edit, but given there are more people on this forum at any one time than I get as visitors in a whole day, that would be a waste of time. The whole point was to have something useful that people would access and read.

It had a f******g good collection for a regional electricity company . Mind you, if one woman can power the whole of the north-west, perhaps we shouldn't be surprised at anything.

Thank you. Can you also edit the Norweb one to read surname first? Ta.

What you need to do is overlay it on the 1844 with the same one dot and check it is the same die. If it is, then the coin you have will be one of the early strikes in 1845 where the 1844 obverse had been replaced with a correctly dated die, but the reverse being serviceable continued to be used. There will be others, but probably not very many. As the reverse is undated, there would be no need to exchange it at the New Year. Colin's website showing the 1844 with one dot is reverse B http://aboutfarthings.co.uk/catalogue/uk-farthings/victoria-1838-1901/victoria-young-head-1838-1859/1844-farthing/ That also has the missing serif, so is probably the same reverse die. Any signs of die fill would therefore be found on 1844 farthings and not the 1845.

WOODHEAD, P Collector of medieval hammered coins active from the second half of the 20th century onwards. Coins were frequently traded with both major dealers and fellow collectors.

Buy a complete set and sell the unmatching ones. Trying to match a set is well nigh impossible. Tried several times and always resorted to square one.

CONTE, W J The collection sold in parts in both the UK at Baldwins and the US at CNG around the time of the Millennium. White tickets, 25mm diameter, written in pencil

DUPREE, T W J D Collection of rare and quality coins acquired by Spink at the end of the 1980s and sold through the Circular or by private treaty. Previous collection references are sometimes included on the back of the ticket.

ARMITAGE, E F P Some Norman sold through Seaby, the remainder of the collection purchased by Spink c1960. White/Cream ticket, 3/4" diameter, writing on one side.

HUNT, P Philip Hunt collection of halfcrowns to 1700, part of collection purchased by Colin Adams in 2000 and subsequently sold in his sale at Spink in 2005.

BROOKER, J G Brooker's collection was purchased by Spink and dispersed between 1979 and 1984. The entry in Eaglen's BNJ article states the ticket size as either 32 or 48mm, but this is 38, so clearly other sizes exist. Distinctive handwriting in blue ink.

ADAMS, C Colin Adams had two sales - his pennies were sold at Spink in July 2003 and mostly had either blue or white tickets of the type on the left. The halfcrowns sold at Spink in December 2005 all had tickets of the type on the right with the collection name added. Diameter of tickets usually 30 or 31mm.

SLANEY Collection No scale to measure against, but I think about 29mm or the imperial equivalent. The reverse was blank. The collection was assembled in the period from the late 1930s to the early 1960s before being split between the two grandchildren. Both collections were sold at Spink, the first in 2003 and the second in 2015.

Hi Charles. That may be where you bought it, but the point of this thread was to assign a name to the writer of a ticket Thanks Eric. The colour is probably time dependant in that case. The white envelope came from a coin out of Lockett, but bought from Spink in July 1958 If possible can communications be made via the thread that Pete started in the Nothing to do with Coins forum. Try and keep this clean. Thanks.

Thanks Pete. However, an inauspicious start has been made. In the second post I corrected Mrs E M H NORWEB to NORWEB, Mrs E M H to put the surname first, and then forgot to save it. Doh. Must try harder.

NOTT, R A Token collection of approx 8000 pieces assembled from the 1930s onwards and sold to Mrs Norweb via Spink in 1960-1. His catalogues were profusely annotated with the contents of each bulk lot. The tickets were hand cut from paper and therefore of varying diameter.