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NEWFOUNDLAND McAUSLANE TOKEN APPEARANCESDarryl Atchison writes: "Recently while reading Hoare Auction sale no. 72 (Jan. 2002), I noticed that they had a notation referring to nine auction appearances of this exceptionally rare token. I have accounted for six of these, as follows: 1) Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge - Murdoch collection - July 1903 2) Lyman Low - Frank Benson Sherman collection - July 1904 3) Wayte Raymond - W.W.C. Wilson collection - Nov. 1925 4) Max Mehl - William Forrester Dunham collection - June 1941 5) New Netherlands et al - A.N.A. sale -Aug. 1952 6) Jeffrey Hoare Auctions - sale no. 72 - Jan. 2002 The cataloguer of the Hoare sale states that other appearances in the Nov. 1926 and Nov. 1927 W.W.C. Wilson sales also by Wayte Raymond. Also they refer to a [P.M.] Wickham collection sold in 1947 but they do not mention the auction house which ran the sale. Could our readers please check their copies of the Raymond sales for Nov. 26, Nov. 27, and also May 1928 to verify if specimens of this token were indeed in those sales? It seems incredible that Wilson could have had as many as 50% of the suspected population of these tokens. Also, if anyone has information on the Wickham sale I would be pleased to hear from them. Just to be absolutely sure of ourselves, I am talking about Breton 956 which is the McAuslane token from Newfoundland and not the McAusland token which is from Prince Edward Island. Thank you, once again for your assistance."Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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