british trade tokens 1814-wiveliscombe-interesting bit of history

four trade tokens wiveliscombe somerset -john featherstone 1814-clothier three pence---r north-1814-clothier three pence---temlett & clarke two pence--and one penny---why did such a very small town issue such high value tokens--wiveliscombe is on the edge of the quantock hills .good sheep country and became the manufactoring base of a very hard wearing cloth,but had only one customer for its produce--the slaves in the british empire-with the abolition of slavery just after these tokens were issued that was the decline of wiveliscombe.-----lets see some more tokens with a history

 

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Chaston's Penny

I don't have an 1814 but here's an 1811 token from the fisheries in Lowestoft.
These tokens seem to get a lot less attention than the Conders of a decade earlier.

 

fantastic token with geat condition,this was the first year of token issue for this period ended 1820-issued because of the war with france,shortage of change in circulation--thanks for showing it

 

Love your tokens guys. I don't know much about Conders or the later issues like yours yarm, but I assume they're much like the U.S. Hard Times tokens. A bit later than these but issued under similar circumstances. In the early 1860s of course the Civil War tokens made their appearance. Again, issued under similar circumstances as emergency money. Thanks for showing them.

Bruce

 

bruce--- three periods of token issue in britain--approx.dates 1648--1672 shortage of coinage in circulation due to the civil war--mostly farthings-------1787-1797 men were moving from working on the land to factories during the industrial revolution,again not enough small coinage in circulation--mostly halfpennies-----1811-1815 same reason the country having a problem with a french gentleman (napoleon ) mostly pennies

 

Wyvern, nice summary!

The Rose Copper Company didn't spend a lot of time on fancy designs for their penny token.

 

Here my only British trade token

 

nice token---city arms--man with wool sack ---look for the edge inscription it will probably be i fieldings manchester,but might be place names---with 18th cent. tokens always look for the edge inscription,can be interesting

 

Thanks for the history lesson wyvern. I do intend on picking up some Conders at some point as I like their history and designs very much.

Bruce

 

bruce they are also very inexpensive,a great collecting area--good luck

 

Five that I have posted before. I love these things - all the periods wyvern has described - so much history and local info:

 

paddy the cornwall token 1811 featured on t v a few days ago,the scourier mine owners used these to pay the workers who could only use them in the mine owners shop-the mine owners became rich !!!!!pilchard and blocks of tin on reverse-the ruins of the mine are still there today---nice group what a great low cost collecting area

 

Here is mine.
Macclesfield halfpenny.

 

Liverpool halfpenny (also appealed in London and Bristol).

 

Here's a token that might be considered a "tweener". It was issued by William Upcott as a private token in 1801 (and restruck later by W.J.Taylor). R.C.Bell includes it in his book Tradesman Tickets and Private Tokens along with lots of other tokens of that description from the Conder era. However, at auction it's typically included in the 19th Century copper token section.

I've yet to see an original of these that was fully struck up.