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Broadstruck · February 15, 2013 10:16AM

1835 Walsh's General Store, Lansingburgh, N.Y., Low-101 / HT-218

This is the toughest of the 3 Walsh varieties on which the die sinker misspelled the name of the city.

lordmarcovan · February 15, 2013 10:19AM

Nice 'un.

At first I thought you meant they'd spelled NEW YORK wrong, because of the hyphen. I was overlooking "Lansinburg" (sic).

I could be tempted down Exonumia Avenue by HTTs and CWTs and merchant tokens of those eras (and Conder tokens from across the pond, too), but I fear the days of real bargains in the Red and RB tokens may be mostly over?

Once upon a time, probably during my YN days, I'll bet you could get some nice ones for a song. Not so much these days, I'll wager, though I'm sure there are still affordable ones to be had here and there.

Here is last night's newp for my new 19th century VF-XF Basic Type Set.

Larger obverse picture

Larger reverse picture

ambro51 · February 15, 2013 10:28AM

ambro51 · February 15, 2013 10:30AM

Gilfoils Copper. Fort Crown Point c.1765. Unique.

lordmarcovan · February 15, 2013 10:33AM

Ambro- izzat a British Broad Arrow mark on that slug?

AnkurJ · February 15, 2013 10:41AM

NGC Fattie MS65RD CAC

Ed62 · February 15, 2013 10:42AM

Broadstruck · February 15, 2013 11:10AM

<< <i>Nice 'un. At first I thought you meant they'd spelled NEW YORK wrong, because of the hyphen. I was overlooking "Lansinburg" (sic). I could be tempted down Exonumia Avenue by HTTs and CWTs and merchant tokens of those eras (and Conder tokens from across the pond, too), but I fear the days of real bargains in the Red and RB tokens may be mostly over? Once upon a time, probably during my YN days, I'll bet you could get some nice ones for a song. Not so much these days, I'll wager, though I'm sure there are still affordable ones to be had here and there. >>

Thanks LM... Actually during your YN days 1980-89 was the height of the market for HTT's as there were a lot of prominent majorly competitive players. The series since 2008 has been on fire but thankfully not quite nearing it's previous highs. Just last month a $500 on average R5 token sold for over $2800 at S/B which was a real head scratcher even when another of the same two weeks earlier fetched over $800 on ebay. Just last year a third same all NGC XF45 was ripped on GC for under $300.

The Walsh I posted here although just considered Rarity-1 as per Lyman Low is only available in lower grades and has been missing from many collections. Garrett owned a VF, Dunham a Fine, Brand a XF, and Ford a Cleaned XF which was ex: F.C.C Boyd. Having researched older auction catalogs back to the 1915 this is one of the finest examples known of this variety. It was off the market for the last 20 years and I was in the right place at a show just as the negotiations finalized on a older HTT collection.

Broadstruck · February 15, 2013 11:28AM

1834 William H. Milton, Boston, Massachusetts, HT-163 / Low-265

Here's my other acquisition from the same older collection as the Walsh. The straight lined Milton variety without scroll ornaments and Faneuil spelled correctly on both the obverse and reverse. This is another HTT that due to it's R-1 rarity looks easy to locate on paper until you've been working with the series for a while. Difficult to not only to locate at AU or above (as only 2 other examples have been on the market in the last 4 1/2 years) but the center lettering is usually completely obliterated on both sides due to die stage or weak strikes. Here's a UNC fully struck example.

lordmarcovan · February 15, 2013 11:55AM

Post another BN Unc with that satiny look and a touch of color.

I do believe I find them as appealing as the full Reds, now.

Broadstruck · February 15, 2013 1:09PM

<< <i>Post another BN Unc with that satiny look and a touch of color.

I do believe I find them as appealing as the full Reds, now. >>

The fields are actually fully PL on both the obverse and reverse.