The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 49, December 5, 2004, Article 11

BATTY COLLECTION REFERENCE FOUND

Darryl Atchison writes: " Here is a response I received 
from Michael Knight on my query concerning D.T. Batty's 
collection. I thought I would share this with our other
readers since Batty was such an important and 
interesting cataloguer."

Michael writes,  "The report of sale of his collection in 
1910 comes from Manville & Robertson 'British Numismatic 
Auction Catalogues 1710-1984' (1986) on page 375. Where it 
states "Collection reportedly dispersed c1910; Canadian 
material formerly in the collection of DT Batty, 
the numismatic compiler included in sale 1902-29"

When you look under sale 29 in 1902 section, it is not the 
correct sale. Correct sale reference is 1902-31 for
Glendining 11-13 June "originally collected by the 
late DT Batty..1131 Canadian coins and tokens..".

I suspect that collection was sold way before 1910, and
the 1902 sale was by original purchaser of Canadian Group.

Batty was touting his collection for sale as early as 1895. 
In that year WJ Davis published 'The Token Coinage of 
Warwickshire'. In the adverts at the back is one from Batty, 
announcing that he is distributing his private collection, 
mostly in mint condition, each numbered as described in 
volumes 1 and 2 of his work. He would be glad to have 
enquiries for specialities, series or counties. He mentions 
he also wants to sell his Canadian tokens (interestingly he 
says it contains nearly 2,000 tokens). His West Indian and 
Rosa Americanas will be offered shortly in one lot.

So I guess that there is no sale catalogue for the other
elements of his collection, as Batty was using his book 
as the sale catalogue and it was sold in parts.
Hope this helps"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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