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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24779177, member: 26430&quot;]It certainly looks familiar. Mid-twentieth century. British.</p><ul> <li>Possibly bought at Spink, 1941? With private price code? I wonder what/who P.T.O. is?</li> <li>If you spot another weird &quot;AR&quot; like that, you&#039;ll know you have your match!<br /> </li> <li>Maybe not Lockett&#039;s, but his handwriting and tag styles seem so variable, it wouldn&#039;t shock me. From his era and social milieu, though, I think.</li> </ul><p> <ul> <li>Some similarity to Lord Grantley, who also had highly variable tags (maybe these guys had secretaries or professional catalogers writing some of them?). <br /> The <i><b>reverse</b></i> format seems similar -- name &amp;/or date of seller above a 3 (?) digit code separated by diagonal slashes. <br /> From the BNS docs (I have one Grantley ticket, but not at home to photo, [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] I think has at least one):</li> </ul><p>[ATTACH=full]1585333[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>For this one I would make sure I&#039;d checked the documents on the BNS Coin Tickets page (&quot;http&quot; no &quot;s,&quot; see NOTES):</p><p><a href="http://www.britnumsoc.org/contributors?view=article&amp;id=266:6-people-pages-coin-tickets" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britnumsoc.org/contributors?view=article&amp;id=266:6-people-pages-coin-tickets" rel="nofollow">http://www.britnumsoc.org/contributors?view=article&amp;id=266:6-people-pages-coin-tickets</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>NOTES</b>:</p><ul> <li>The main Coin Tickets page, with links to the different PDFs, seems to have moved.</li> <li>Site certificate expired? I have to remove the &quot;s&quot; from &quot;https://&quot; or tell my browser to &quot;proceed anyway (unsafe).&quot;</li> <li>I think the direct links to the PDFs from the top comment are unchanged (those ending .pdf in the quote below).</li> <li>BNS&#039; Coin Tickets documents have been updated over time, so it&#039;s worth checking back once in a while. (It&#039;s always to add or move info, not delete.) I have saved all the PDFs (in case the site goes down for real!), so I just look over my version(s) to see if anything is changed.</li> <li>Alternately, go to <a href="http://britnumsoc.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://britnumsoc.org" rel="nofollow">http://britnumsoc.org</a> &amp; search Coin Tickets, which leads me to <a href="http://www.britnumsoc.org/contributors?view=article&amp;id=266:6-people-pages-coin-tickets&amp;catid=2:uncategorised" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britnumsoc.org/contributors?view=article&amp;id=266:6-people-pages-coin-tickets&amp;catid=2:uncategorised" rel="nofollow">http://www.britnumsoc.org/contributors?view=article&amp;id=266:6-people-pages-coin-tickets&amp;catid=2:uncategorised</a></li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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