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 Lot 50100LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens - Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Syria(?)/Ottoman Empire: brass business token bearing the Arab legend "Atnah | Mr. Sobhy Basha Factory"; size: 30mm; weight: 9.45g. Atnah is presumed to be a location; a village of al-Atnah exists in the Damascus region of Syria. Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens |
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 Lot 50095LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens - Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Palestine(?): bronze token with incused Hebrew legend "Y. Zagman" with apparent value of '1' stamped below, circa mid-late 19th Century; size: 35mm; weight: 21.2g. Probably a business token; presumed to be from Palestine as all in Hebrew. Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens |
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 Lot 50090LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens - Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Lot x8 British Jewish merchant/business tokens, c. late 18th-19th Cent. 1) New Houses of Parliament/Queen Victoria bronze token by Hyam Hyams of London (goldsmith, watch/clock maker, money changer), designed by Allen & Moore, 1847; 2) Louis Silberberg (tobacconist) 'Habana Cigar Company, 104 Cheapside'/ left-facing portrait tin token, 1866 (bent planchet); 3) Lewis Levy - Borough Market of 19 Percival Street 1 Shilling copper token by R. Neal; 4) Louis Silberberg 'Sole Agent for Schreckensteins Bremen Cigars' at 19 St. Martins/ Wholesale | Retail bronze token; 5) Morgan & Biermann (fruit importers) of Hope St., Cardiff 2 Shilling brass token (ND) by Carter of Birmingham; 6) Warwickshire Isaac Perrins Penny: right-facing Perrins/ 'Bella! Horrida Bella! |Strength and Magnaminity', 1789 (was Jewish boxer, lost bareknuckled match against Tom Johnson, England champion, after 62 rounds); 7) B. Hyam 'Manufacturing Clothiers' & image of 3 garments/ 63 Lord St. Liverpool halfpenny copper token (ND); 8) Elias Moses & Son of London calendar/ Duke of Wellington tin medal, 1856. Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens |
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 Lot 50096LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens - Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Romania(?): undocumented bronze token with large letter "K." on obverse & Star of David device on reverse. Probably a Romanian Jewish business token, similar to those covered by Schaffer - but unlisted in his catalogue; 2.1g, 20.25mm. Circa. early 20th Century. Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens |
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 Lot 50091LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens - Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Lot 5x European/Jewish merchant & business tokens, c. early 20th Cent.: 1) Germany: Rudolph Hertzog (manufacturer) of Berlin decagonal brass token; 2) Italy Michelangelo Jesurum & Co. (lace-maker) encased 1 Centisimo token, 1904; 3) Germany: Firma Valentin Manheimer (confectionary) 75th anniversary copper token, 1914, by Ludwig Ostermann (Forrer listed v4 p.335) & Otto Oertel (Forrer listed v4 p303-304 & v8 p101-102); 4) Austria: Jacob Rothberger (clothing deparment store) brass token; 5) Austria: J. Senft (bakery) uniface iron token - one of his buildings was designed by Ernst Schwadron, whose clientele mostly Jewish & who fled the Nazis. Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens |
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 Lot 50097LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens - Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Germany (Poland) > Posen: 15 Wert-Mark octagonal zinc business token of the watthour-meter factory business founded by Jewish electrical-engineer Prof. Dr. Hermann Aron (1845-1913), who invented first accurate watt-hour meter; c. 1917; 21.75x21.75mm, 1.95g. His business included factories in London, Paris & Vienna; son Manfred assumed management of business, and w/growing anti-Semitism, in 1929, changed name to "Nora" (Aron backwards) & in 1933 to "Heliowatt" - by then 4th largest manufacturer in field in Germay. The business was sold to Siemens in 1935 & the family fled to America. Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens |
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 Lot 50092LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens - Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Lot 17x German & Austrian (1pc) Jewish merchant/business tokens, c. early 20th Cent.: 2x Hermann Tietz of Berlin - 1pf Wertmarke in silvered zinc? + brass 5pf [wertmark]; Ludwig Lowe of Berlin 1 pf token for drink or tea, silvered zinc(?); F. Rosenfeld of Hernals Hauptstraße 49 Vienna 'Geschäfts-Marke' business token in heavy tin; G. V. Lassalle lyre/'Freedom * Equality * Brotherhood' w/arm device, tin; Mayer Kauffmann of Tannhausen Silesia (textiles) 50pf porcelain token, 1921; 2x Henry Seligmann of Hannover (coin dealer) 25pf & 50pf porcelain tokens, 1921; 2x H. Heymann of Sachsenhausen brass 15pf token w/beer-mug + 12pf silvered zinc token; 2x Goldschmidt & Loewenick of Frankfurt (home & travel shoes factory) 5pf & 10pf octagonal zinc tokens; 2x Abraham Dreyfus of Mulhausen of Alsace (mill; a relative of Alfred Dreyfus) 5pf & 10pf octagonal zinc 'kleingeldersatzmarke'; 2x Abraham Wertheim of Berlin (father of key founder; department store) 1pf & 2pf silvered zinc(?) 'wertmarke' tokens; [Abraham] Adolf Jandorf of Berlin (department store) 1pf octagonal zinc token. Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens |
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 Lot 50098LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens - Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Israel: lot x7 bakelite ship cafeteria tokens from Sommerfin and Zim lines, circa. 1960s. Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens |
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 Lot 50093LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens - Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Israel: lot x11 business/machine tokens, circa. 1960s-'70s, includes "Yavnir", "HaMarva", the 'Central Chicken-Coop Depot', "Copimat" (x2), "Cellmatic", "Tnuva" milk, "Shitta Automatim", "Medimat" (x2). Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens |
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 Lot 50088LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens - Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Britain: lot x4 Isaac Earlysman Sparrow copper farthing tokens: 1) obv: "Ascended at Oxford | June 23 1823" & hot-air balloon/ "Ironmonger Bishopsgate London" & left portrait, milled rim, in F-VF, Batty-401O; 2) "Ironmonger Bishopsgate London" & hot-air balloon/ "Isaac Earlysman 1*8 Sparrow 2*5" & left portrait, milled rim, in F; 3) "Sparrow Nail Merchant • London" & hot-air balloon/ "Sparrow's Leather Sauce", plain rim, in VF-EF, Batty-487O; 4) "Ironmonger Bishopsgate London" & hot-air balloon/ "Isaac Earlysman * Sparrow *" (ND) & left portrait, coin alignment, milled rim, in EF-AU, Batty-400O. Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens |
