Description
Great Britain, Middlesex (London), Skidmore (established by John Skidmore, c.1748-1823, furnisher and stove-plate maker with businesses in Clerkenwell and High Holborn, and later token issuer with his sons), Copper Halfpenny Trade Token mule, dated 1793, obverse: register stove, “No.123 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON” around square edges, PAYABLE AT SKIDMORES FURNISHING REPOSITORY around in outside border, reverse: bust of William Hallan left, WILLIAM HALLAN BIRMINGHAM around (William Hallan, dealer in China and Staffordshire ware, also ran a “registry office” or employment exchange for servants), date below, edge plain, diam. 28mm (Dalton & Hamer “The Provincial Token Coinage of the 18th Century” 484b).
Good extremely fine with a little original colour remaining, struck on a very thin flan thus not fully struck up, circular flan polish still evident, of the highest rarity, this the only example recorded.
Ex Baldwin’s Basement Collection, Baldwin’s Auction 92, September 2014, lot 397
