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Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, The Norweb Collection, Tokens of the British Isles, 1575-1750. (London, 1984 - 2000).

1. The Norweb Collection, Tokens of the British Isles, 1575-1750, Part 1, Bedfordshire to Devon by R.H. THOMPSON - S.C.B.I. Volume 31 - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles Volume 31, 1984. xl, pages; 35 fine plates, each with descriptive text. Blue cloth.

2. The Norweb Collection, Tokens of the British Isles, 1575-1750, Part 2, Dorset, Durham, Essex and Gloucestershire by R.H. THOMPSON - S.C.B.I. Volume 38 - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles Volume 38, 1988. lxxx, (I), 172 pages, 51 fine plates, each with descriptive text. Blue Cloth. The appearance in Part II of the square Bristol Farthing provides the justification of the earlier date on the title. Part II contains an outstanding series of Essex tokens, a large number of Gloucestershire, and good runs of Dorset and Durham.

3. The Norweb Collection, Tokens of the British Isles, 1575-1750, Part 3, Hampshire to Lincolnshire by R.H. THOMPSON, & M. DICKINSON - S.C.B.I. Volume 43 - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles. Volume 43, 1992. liv, 216 (2) pages, including 51 fine plates, each with descriptive text. Blue cloth. Part 3 contains one of the most important collections of Hertfordshire tokens, which the Norwebs acquired from the enormous Nott collection and elsewhere. Nott had acquired Longman's collection; and Longman had built on those he acquired from his grandfather Sir John Evans. Hertfordshire localities new to Williamson are Batchworth Bridge (Rickmansworth), Elstree, Stanstead Abbots and Welwyn. There are extensive runs for Hampshire (which now, however, loses tokens through re-attribution from Blackwater and Farnborough), and for Kent, the latter including hop-pickers' tokens from Minster and Queenborough. There are good representations of the small series for Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire (adding the places Earith and Spaldwick), Leicestershire (adding Belgrave and Bottesford), and Lancashire, where the loss of pieces from Ashton, Newton, and Risley is compensated with the new localities of Greenlow Heath, Marsden Coal Pit, and Rufford. For Lincolnshire, however, the Norwebs seem always to have faced stronger competition, as is also true to some extent of Kent.

4. The Norweb Collection, Tokens of the British Isles, 1575-1750, Part 4, Norfolk to Somerset by R.H. THOMPSON, & M. DICKINSON - S.C.B.I. Volume 44 - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles. Volume 44, 1993. lvii, 220 pages, including 50 fine plates, each with descriptive text. Blue cloth. Part IV has maintained the practices and procedures set up for Part III. Contains and introduction on the legend of the Glastonbury thorn by R.H. Thompson.

5. The Norweb Collection, Tokens of the British Isles, 1575-1750, Part 5, Staffordshire to Westmorland by R.H. THOMPSON, & M. DICKINSON - S.C.B.I. Volume 46 - Sylloge of coins of the British Isles Volume 46, 1996. lxii, 220 pages, including 50 fine plates, each with descriptive text. Blue cloth. This volume is dominated by Surrey, and its urban stretches which Williamson partly separated as 'Southwark'. A more systematic division has been made into Surrey I and the urban Surrey II. For Lambeth, for which there are too few tokens to justify its being taken out of Surrey I, the devices included are rare illustrations of an open pit saw, and one of the earliest depictions in Britain of Punchinello. The whole of Surrey is a very good series. Re-attributed to Warwickshire has been Hanche 'Pits', from Staffordshire, both counties being well represented even though they are somewhat rare. Much of Sussex came late into token issuing. The small county of Westmorland is well represented, with interesting devices, issuing partnerships, and companies.

6. The Norweb Collection, Tokens of the British Isles, 1575-1750, Part 6, Wiltshire to Yorkshire. Ireland, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands and Scotland by R.H. THOMPSON, & M. DICK - Sylloge of coins of the British Isles Volume 49, 2000. lxxii, 264 (2) pages, including 43 fine plates, each with descriptive text. Cloth. This volume completes England apart from London and Middlesex. Wiltshire is fairly comprehensive, Worcestershire reasonably strong, whilst Yorkshire is superb, and probably the best collection ever formed, with many pieces being rare if not unique. For Ireland there are many corrections. The Petty coinage is the subject of an introductory essay. There is a specimen of the only type of the Isle of Man, and of the only confirmed type of Scotland. Two uncertain pieces have been attributed to the island of Sark. The Wales series has just one addition to Boon (1973). The volume includes an Addenda including all the tokens which can now be attributed to counties previously published.


Mrs Emery May Norweb took an interest in coins since around 1905, and built up a remarkable collection, with particular strengths in North and South American pieces, and since 1953 English. She was 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 S.C.B.I., and additional pieces acquired between 1971 and 1980 were included in volume 30. The seventeenth century tokens, however, were 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 were 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 built 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.


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