| Description | Contains original testimonial letters from clients of Ralph Heaton & Sons and the Birmingham Mint with a typed list of the testimonials, as follows: - 'Royal Mint, 1861 (re proposed Sardinia coinage)' - 'Lord Mayor, 1861 (re proposed Sardinia coinage)' [Lord Mayor of Birmingham] - 'Various, 1861' (re proposed Sardinia coinage)' - 'Williams Foster & Co., Copper Smelters, 1861' - 'Haiti 1864' [in French] - 'Canada, silver coinage, 1872' - 'Germany, bronze blanks, 1876' - 'Denmark, bronze blanks, 1876' [in Danish] - 'Royal Mint, 1876' - 'Royal Mint 1877' [with covering letter] - 'Crown Agents, Mauritius coinage, 1877' - 'Jersey, 1877' - 'Lord Mayor, 1877' [Lord Mayor of Birmingham] - 'Crown Agents, 1878' - 'Royal Mint, coin presses, 1879' - 'Royal Mint, 1880' - 'Lord Mayor, 1880' [Lord Mayor of Birmingham] - 'Italy, 1881' [in Italian, with translation on the reverse] - 'Canada, silver and bronze coins, 1882' - 'J.Hart (?) & Co., re. Central American coinage, 1883' - 'British North Borneo Co., 1883' - 'Ecuador, 1888' [in Spanish] - 'East Africa Co., copper and silver coins, 1891' - 'Guernsey, copper coinage, 1891' - 'British North Borneo Co., copper coinage, 1891' - 'Ecuador, 1891' - 'Costa Rica, 1891' - 'Siam, bronze coinage, 1891' - 'Portugal, silver blanks, 1891' - 'Royal Mint, 1892' - 'Colombia, silver recoinage, 1892' - 'Colombia, silver recoinage, 1894' - 'Lord Mayor, 1901 (re proposal for Bulgaria)' [Lord Mayor of Birmingham. This testimonial is a handwritten copy] - 'Canada, silver coinage, 1903' - Mexico, 1907' [in Spanish with translation attached] - 'Royal Mint, 1909 re Straits Settlements, Egypt, Hong Kong, Morocco, Newfoundland, Zanzibar, Canada).' - 'Royal Mint, 1912' - 'Ecuador, silver coinage, 1915' The file also contains a typed list of nickel coinages executed by The Mint Birmingham, Ltd. 1869 - 1911. |