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1795 Skidmore's Register Stove Middlesex Conder Halfpenny Token
1795 Skidmore's Register Stove Middlesex Conder Halfpenny Token
1795 Skidmore's Register Stove Middlesex Conder Halfpenny Token

1795 Skidmore's Register Stove Middlesex Conder Halfpenny Token

$ 118.8

Availability: 49 in stock
  • Year: 1795
  • Certification: Uncertified
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Modified Item: No
  • Denomination: 1/2p
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Circulated/Uncirculated: Circulated
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Composition: Copper

    Description

    1795 Skidmore's Register Stove Middlesex Conder Halfpenny Token. Shipped with USPS First Class.
    This Skidmore’s RegisterStove London (Middlesex) copper
    Conder halfpenny token,dated 1795 (Dalton & Hamer Middlesex No. 480; Atkins 361; 29.2 mm.) hassuperb eye appeal with superb color and surfaces.
    There is some original red luster on theobverse, and a die flaw on the reverse within the word “CLERKENWELL” in thelegend.
    Obverse: Register stove within acircle, with legend on its four sides: “N
    o
    123
    |
    HIGH| HOLBORN |
    LONDON” and legendaround: “PAYABLE AT SKIDMORES FURNISHING REPOSITORY *”.
    Reverse: Two men at a forge, with legendbelow: “1795”, and legend around: “MANUFACTORY
    .
    &
    .
    IRON-FOUNDRY
    .
    CLERKENWELL *”.
    Diagonally milled edge \\\.
    John Skidmore
    (1748-1823)
    ,with his sons Meremoth and Gamaliel, became very successful stove gratemanufacturers in London.
    They carried on
    an iron-foundry and held the appointment of stove gratemaker to His Majesty's Board of Ordnance.
    Another son, Paul Skidmore
    (b. 1775)
    , was a token maker in Holborn.
    Skidmore & Son,circa 1795 or 1796, produced numerous tokens, ultimately responsible for morethan a quarter of all the token varieties produced in the late 18th century,including those issued by Matthew Denton, Thomas Prattent, and Thomas Spence.