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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BRandM, post: 1839524, member: 22729&quot;]Your &quot;Bigger&quot; counterstamp is listed in Brunk as B-655 in the section for British tokens Wehwalt. John Bigger was a cutler at 36 Bolton (and 41 Bolton) from 1836 to 1843. There are four varieties of his stamp known. The captions on the other three reads as follows.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>&quot;BIGGER / BOLTON STREET / CUTLER / DUBLIN&quot; </b>with another merchant&#039;s stamp on the other side of the coin. <b>&quot;JAS IRELAND/BELFAST&quot; </b> Ireland was an ironmonger in Belfast from 1819 to 1846. He was also a copper and tin plate manufacturer and japanner. It&#039;s possible these two men knew each other or had a business accommodation of some sort. The two stamps are struck on a 1797 English Cartwheel Penny.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;BIGGER/CUTLER/5 N. KING ST/DUBLIN&quot; </b>It&#039;s not known when Bigger worked at this address. This stamp is also known on a 1797 Cartwheel Penny.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;BIGGER/DUBLIN&quot; </b>There are four examples of this stamp documented. Three are on 1797 Cartwheel Pennies and a fourth on an unspecified Penny Token.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nice old historical piece. Thanks for showing it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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