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- [1889x1914] / (Creation)
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An elaborately bound volume lettered 'Trade Tokens (XVII century) Wales', containing a copy of George C. Williamson: Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in [Wales] by Corporations, Merchants, Tradesmen, Etc. [1889], together with marginal and interleaved annotations and copious additions in the hand of R. D. Roberts, Bethesda. Bound into the volume are a holograph letter, [19]03, from James W. Lloyd, Kington, to R. D. Roberts, and a note [1914] in the hand of John Ward, F.S.A., National Museum of Wales, both documents relating to a Holyhead token.
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English.
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The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
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Publication note
See R. D. Roberts: 'Seventeenth Century Tokens in Wales' in Wales, vol. II, pp. 557-561.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 11612B.
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- Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942 (Subject)
- Roberts, R. D. (Robert Davies), 1874-1940 (Subject)
- Lloyd, James W., Kington, Herefordshire. (Subject)
- Ward, John, 1856-1922 (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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September 2009.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971);