John Byrom, Abingdon's Coffeehouse
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'If Mr Hesketh has really a mind to have my medals, I shall send you [such] an account of them as I can, for indeed I don’t understand them, but will not part with them without a valuable consideration; they will not spoil with keeping. He saw those I had at Manchester, which were fair and rare, and I have a good many more here, but such very entire ones are but here and there among ’em; I have not yet looked at them since I came. He is a sort of a connoisseur, and if he has a skill therein, should be glad to know at what rate he would desire to purchase, for I design to part with them when opportunity offers, but I cannot pretend to set a price on them till further information.'
(Parkinson 1854-1857, vol. I.2, pp. 562-4; Burnett 2020b, p. 1635-6)
Hesketh died on 18 April 1735. Presumably the transaction was not completed. (en)
References
- ^ Parkinson, R. (ed.)(1854-7) The private journal and literary remains of John Byrom, Chetham Society 32, 34, 40, 44, Manchester.
- ^ Burnett, Andrew M. (2020), The Hidden Treasures of this Happy Land. A History of Numismatics in Britain from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, BNS Special Publ. No 14 = RNS Special Publ. No 58, London, Spink & Son.