I don’t know the answer to this, but do you think there’s a link?
One of the below tickets references Ffolks tables of English coinage, which I’ve been advised was an antiquated source by the mid 1800s? It’s been proposed that we should be looking in the 1750-1830 window for a collection with these hand-made tickets?
That’s a VERY good effort. I can’t 100% recall, will take a look, but I’m pretty certain I had a similar-quality copy of a sixpence with the same date and mark.
No these are the tickets that belonged to an earlier sale, before J.J. purchased it to sell, I got confused with me pictures 😬
The neater hand is agreed to be Comber (there’s a couple of other Comber tickets posted in recent days for comparison), so it’s now the left I’m curious about? Sorry for the confusion.
Thanks, Jerry, really appreciate your input here! I thought the right hand ticket looked Comber, any thoughts on the left, from what little is shown?
Edit: sorry I meant TopCarp2 and he’s definitely signing himself off as Stephen???
Can I ask a favour…does anyone recognise the tickets accompanying this coin?
some of the details in the right hand ticket looks Comber, but what of the left?
You’d think they’d know better than this?
You could be eating your lunch, whilst talking on your phone at a train station, and STILL spot this one in a shop window across the other side of the rail track with one eye closed!
Amazing the difference two photos can make! The first looks like it’s just popped off the die, the second, like it’s been on the bottom of the ocean a few hundred years!
I was simply looking at various dies for the double crown and came across these two that were difficult to reconcile.
I initially assumed them to be different coins of the same die…I think it a tricky call, photography versus analysis, for me at least.
Interestingly the chronology is all wrong at London Coins, which counts against me to be fair!
These two coins are meant to be exactly the same coin, photographed at different times. Of course photography can vary, but this one looks comparatively mushy…what do you think?