This note presents a group of eleven cardboard advertising tokens which bear a printed design on one side of a photographic image of a very worn Victorian bun head coin. One is a half penny and the other ten are pennies. Background research on the issuers reveals a range of business activities, and possible dates of issue, as well as some common factors.
The rarity of the pieces and geographical spread across the country means that these pieces would not normally be brought together for study. If any readers can add further tokens or fill the gaps in the business histories, please get in touch via the blog.
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Gary, I wanted to leave a comment but I wasn’t allowed to.
I see the lost password function still isn’t working – the expected email never arrives.
I told someone in the BNS about this about a year ago – are you able to get something done about it, please?
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Gary
Gary, A very interesting article. I’m wondering about your tentative date of 1934 for haircuts costing 6d; that seems rather expensive.
I remember that when I lived in West Mersea, Essex, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, that haircuts for boys cost 1/6d and for men were 2/6d.
Peter Munro