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Sylloge of coins of the British Isles. Volume 31.

The Norweb Collection, Tokens of the British Isles, 1575-1750, Part 1, Bedfordshire to Devon.

Mrs Emery May Norweb has been interested in coins since about 1905, and has built up a remarkable collection, with particular strengths in North and South American pieces, and since 1953 English. She has been active in the American Numismatic Society, and was, from 1962 to 1971, President of the Cleveland Museum of Art. On loan to the Museum from the Norweb collection is some splendid pre-Columbian art, and a very fine series of English gold coins, ancient to modern, of which a catalogue was published by the Cleveland Museum in 1968. Mrs Norweb's Ancient British, Romano-British, and English coins to 1180 were published as volume 16 of the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, and additional pieces acquired between 1971 and 1980 were included in volume 30. The seventeenth century tokens, however, have been Mr and Mrs Norweb's joint pursuit. The Honorable R. Henry Norweb was born in Nottingham, and the Norweb family had Yorkshire connections; understandably, therefore, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire tokens have been a particular concern. Mr and Mrs Norweb have shared the labour on collecting, he negotiating with dealers while she kept the records. They acquired about 800 tokens from the Virgil Brand collection. At least as early as 1957 they purchased tokens from the London auction-rooms, and more recently acquired important collections of Shropshire and Yorkshire. The result of this dedicated collecting is that Mr and Mrs Norweb have the largest collection of seventeenth-century tokens that has ever been formed, some 13,000 pieces. It contains a great many unpublished types; and of the published types few hitherto have been illustrated. It should be noted that this publication does not include the Norweb Collection's communion tokens, which are kept separately.

 Xl, pages; 35 fine plates, each with descriptive text. Cloth. Hardback.

Price: £15.00 + £4.00 p&p U. K. (Ref: b0197)