Description
Great Britain, Middlesex (London), John Skidmore (c.1748-1823), furnisher and stove-plate maker with businesses in Clerkenwell and High Holborn), Copper Halfpenny Trade Token, dated 1795, obverse: register stove, “No.123 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON” around square edges, PAYABLE AT SKIDMORES FURNISHING REPOSITORY around in outside border, reverse: men working in foundry with hammers and anvil, brick furnace behind, date below, MANUFACTORY & IRON FOUNDRY CLERKENWELL, edge milled, diam. 29mm (Dalton & Hamer “The Provincial Token Coinage of the 18th Century” 480).
About extremely fine and bronzed, faded inked lettering in the obverse field.
Ex Spink Auction 192, 24 January 2008, lot 82.
