Back

Great Britain - 1811

½ Penny - (London, Thomas Wood) - 2nd

Obverse:

Legend in centre, within a circle, in 14 lines: SALES / OF / ESTATES• HOUSES• / MANUFACTURED GOODS, / AND / MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY, / SPEEDILY EFFECTED / WITHOUT RISK. / PUBLIC AUCTIONS / EVERY DAY AT 12. / line / PRIVATE ORDERS FOR / ALL KINDS OF GOODS / PUNCTUALLY / EXECUTED.

Legend:

THOMAS WOOD. BROKER. AUCTIONEER & GENERAL AGENT •

Size:

30.5 mm.

Edge:

centre grained backslash

Reverse:

A building, inscribed NEW AUCTION MART within a beaded circle.

Legend:

PAYABLE AT THE OLD STOCK EXCHANGE IN BANK NOTES

Exergue:

ESTABLISHED / 1811 / HALFPENNY

Vern's Comments:

Withers:
Thomas Wood, auctioneer

845a Halfpenny, 1811.
THOMAS WOOD. BROKER, AUCTIONEER & GENERAL AGENT • around; in centre, within a circle, in 14 lines: SALES OF ESTATES• HOUSES• MANUFACTURED GOODS, AND MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY, SPEEDILY EFFECTED WITHOUT RISK. PUBLIC AUCTIONS EVERY DAY AT 12. PRIVATE ORDERS FOR ALL KINDS OF GOODS PUNCTUALLY EXECUTED
℞ PAYABLE AT THE OLD STOCK EXCHANGE IN BANK NOTES around a building, inscribed NEW AUCTION MART ; in 3 lines in exergue, ESTABLISHED 1811 HALFPENNY
Davis (Middlesex) 65
Edge : centre grained backslash D8.
31mm 9.5g Die axis ↑↑. RRR

T. Wood, auctioneer, of Bartholomew Lane, was declared a bankrupt on Dec. 8th, 1813.- Star, Dec. 9th, 1813.
The Gentleman's Magazine for May, 1816, records 'Early this morning (Tuesday, April 23rd, 1816) a fire broke out in a bed-room of the Coffee-house over the Old Stock Exchange, at the corner of Swithins (Sweetings) Alley, close to the north-east corner of the Royal Exchange. The fire soon communicated to every part of the building, in which, at the bottom, were an Auction Mart, and a large Wine-company, and above stairs the Coffee-house and several counting houses, all of which are entirely consumed.'

½ Penny - (London, Thomas Wood) - 2nd