Description: This Skidmore’s Register Stove London (Middlesex) copper Conder halfpenny token, dated 1795 (Dalton & Hamer Middlesex No. 480; Atkins 361; 29 mm.) has superb eye appeal with superb color and surfaces. There is considerable original red luster on both the obverse and reverse, and the usual die flaw on the reverse within the word “CLERKENWELL” in the legend is minimal. Obverse: Register stove within a circle, with legend on its four sides: “No 123 | HIGH | HOLBORN | LONDON” and legend around: “PAYABLE AT SKIDMORES FURNISHING REPOSITORY *”. Reverse: Two men at a forge, with legend below: “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 grate manufacturers in London. They carried on an iron-foundry and held the appointment of stove grate maker 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 more than a quarter of all the token varieties produced in the late 18th century, including those issued by Matthew Denton, Thomas Prattent, and Thomas Spence.
Price: 200 USD
Location: Somers, New York
End Time: 2024-02-03T00:05:25.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Denomination: 1/2p
Circulated/Uncirculated: Circulated
Composition: Copper
Year: 1795
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Country/Region: England
Certification: Uncertified
