1193


H.V. Lindo (St Catherine), uniface brass (2), stamped H.V.L., one with five additional 8 stamps, both 19.5mm, 2.37g, 2.40g (Lyall 346 and variant; Ford 651, this piece; Tankersley 351); uncertain attribution, uniface brass, stamped L, 16mm, 2.57g (Lyall –; Ford –; Tankersley –); uncertain attribution (St Mary), uniface aluminium, stamped CSM or SCM monogram, 28.5mm, 1.64g (Lyall 347; Ford 652; Tankersley 352); Morris Park Estate (St Catherine), uniface brass, stamped N [Nairn], 23mm, 6.31g (Lyall 350; Ford 653; Tankersley –) [5]. First with large punched Standard hole, second and fourth pierced as issued, generally fine, all rare


£100-150


Provenance: Second R.J. Ford Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 79, 15 October 1990, lot 651; third found on Jamaica, bt R.A. Brandon 1991; others bt R.A. Brandon.


Harold Vincent Lindo (b. 1888, †by 1969), sugar and banana planter, Bog Walk, St Catherine, agent for the Atlantic Fruit Co at Riversdale, St Catherine. Morris Park estate, proprietor Duncan Allan Nairn, who introduced a tally system in 1964


TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS 1197


Seaverns & Co, uniface brass, stamped S&CO, 19mm, 2.09g (Lyall 363; Ford 658; Tankersley 354); S. & H., uniface brass, stamped S.&H., 18.5mm, 2.02g (Lyall 364; Ford 658; Tankersley 354); S.S. Smith Co (Kingston), uniface brass (2, second pierced), stamped S.S.S., 18 and 19mm, 2.19g, 2.28g (Lyall 367; Ford 658; Tankersley 354); Standard Fruit & Steamship Co (Kingston and Port Morant), uniface brass (4), stamped STANDARD, second countermarked P, all 20mm, 2.14g, 2.09g, 2.14g, 2.04g (Lyall 368, 368 variant, 369, 370; Ford 658; Tankersley 354); Stanton Estate (St Thomas), uniface brass, stamped SE, 24mm, 7.39g (Lyall 372; Ford 659; Tankersley 355), octagonal iron bracteate, stamped M [Mordecai], 33 x 32mm, 3.15g (Lyall –; Ford 660; Tankersley –), uniface square aluminium, stamped M, 25mm, 1.60g (Lyall 374; Ford 660; Tankersley 355); Sunridge Farms Ltd, Jamaican regal Halfpence (3), 1952, 1958, 1965, all stamped S on revs., all 22mm, 4.33, 4.34, 4.43g (Lyall 375; Ford 661; Tankersley 355); Trinity Estate (St Mary), tin-plated octagonal iron bracteates (2, one pierced), both stamped with incuse R, 28 x 26mm, 29 x 25mm, 2.29g, 2.46g (Lyall 376; Ford 661; Tankersley 354); Tropical Fruit Corporation, 1923, aluminium, legend around date, rev. FTC, 21.5mm, 1.64g/6h (Lyall 377; Ford 661; Tankersley 356) [17]. Generally fine


£50-70


Provenance: Lyall 363, 364, 367 pierced, 368 variant, 372, –, 374, two of 375 and both 376 bt R.A. Brandon; Lyall 370 bt D. Megill.


1194


Magnus & Tinling (St Mary), uniface brass, stamped MT, 23.5mm, 3.70g (Lyall –; Ford –; Tankersley –; Rulau 102). Very fine


£20-30


Provenance: Bt R.A. Brandon 1991. Magnus & Tinling had wharves at Oracabessa


1198


Seaverns & Co, shippers to Boston from Jamaica. S.S. Smith, banana traders and shippers from Port Antonio to the USA, fl. 1904-15. Standard Fruit & Steamship Co, formerly Vaccaro Bros, established 1924, acquired the Jamaican interests of Atlantic Fruit Co in 1931. Stanton Estate, proprietor Hannah Mordecai, relative of Ivanhoe Mordecai (see lot 1227). Trinity Estate, proprietor in 1977 Robert Braham. Tropical Fruit Corporation, Broadway, NY, proprietor Sam DiGiorgio


1195


Phoenix Fruit Co (Kingston), aluminium, P.F.CO., ornaments above and below, rev. JAMAICA, ornaments above and below, 19mm, 0.91g/12h (Lyall 352, this piece illustrated; Ford 655, this piece; Tankersley 353). Crude piercing and some edge marks, otherwise very fine and very rare; four specimens known


£100-150


Provenance: R.J. Ford Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 79, 15 October 1990, lot 655.


Phoenix Fruit Co, shipping agents and estate owners, established 1915, ceased trading in 1931


1199 1196


Quebec Estate (St Mary), tin bracteate, stamped M [? Magnus] above TS, 26mm, 1.41g (Lyall 355; Ford 656, this piece; Tankersley –), octagonal tin bracteates (2), stamped MT, second with D on back, 26 and 24mm, 1.42g, 1.32g (Lyall 358 and variant; Ford 656, these pieces; Tankersley 352); tin bracteate, stamped TM, 29 x 26mm, 1.37g (Lyall 359; Ford 656, this piece; Tankersley –); R.W. or W.R. (St Catherine), uniface copper, stamped WR, 22mm, 4.16g (Lyall 360; Ford 657, this piece; Tankersley 352); Roslyn Estate (St Mary), octagonal copper bracteates (2), stamped R, c. 1969, 23 x 21mm, 22 x 20mm, 2.14g, 1.96g (Lyall 361; Ford 657, this piece; Tankersley –) [7]. Varied state


£30-40


Provenance: Sixth bt R.A. Brandon; others R.J. Ford Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 79, 15 October 1990, lots 656, 657.


Quebec Estate, acquired by D.S. Magnus c. 1954. R.W. issues found on Bernard Lodge estate, a sugar plantation. Roslyn Estate, owned by Lester Goffe


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Tryall Estate (St Mary), uniface aluminium, stamped T, 25mm, 1.66g (Lyall 378; Ford 661; Tankersley 356); Tulloch Estate (St Catherine), uniface octagonal copper (3), stamped with annulet, three annulets, mill-sail pattern, 24mm, 23 x 19mm, 19mm, 2.01g, 1.70g, 1.69g (Lyall 379, 381, 382; Ford 662; Tankersley 357), uniface oval aluminium, stamped J.H.M [J.H. McPhail], 31 x 20mm, 0.81g (Lyall 383; Ford 663; Tankersley 358), aluminium bracteates (2), stamped TE, 31 x 24mm, 25mm, 1.94g, 0.67g (Lyall 384 and variant; Ford 663; Tankersley 358), oval aluminium, stamped TE, 31 x 19mm, 0.65g (Lyall 386; Ford 663; Tankersley 358), round aluminium, stamped TE, 38mm, 1.46g (Lyall –; Ford 663; Tankersley –); United Estates (St Mary), uniface octagonal tin-plated iron, stamped UE above F, 26mm, 3.21g (Lyall 387; Ford 664; Tankersley 359) [10]. Generally fine


£80-100 Provenance: All except Lyall 386 and 387 bt R.A. Brandon.


Tryall Estate, proprietor Lillian Motta. Tulloch Estate, proprietor John H. McPhail (†1936)


United Fruit Co, brass (43), stamped U.F.CO, UFC or variations thereof, differing shapes, some with additional letters S, K. F, M, H, G.S.P., G.S.P.W., G.S.W.P, etc, also possible Guatemala issues (2) (Lyall 388 (3), 389, 390 (2), 391 (2), 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410 (3, two off-centre), 412, 413, 415, 416 (4 stamped with letters Z, H, K, M), 417 (2, minor varieties), 418, 419, 421, 422, 423, 425; Ford 665-6; Tankersley 360, 362; Prid. 150-3) [43]. Generally fine, some better; a comprehensive group, some very rare


£150-200


Provenance: Lyall 400 bt W.H. Pheatt; Lyall 404 bt NASCA 1980; Lyall 415 gift of R.B. Barker; Lyall 416 stamped K bt H. Christensen 1978; other Lyall 416s bt D. Megill; several others bt R.A. Brandon.


United Fruit Co, founded in March 1899, had a near-monopoly of the Jamaican banana trade until the early 1930s and in its pursuit of business was said to have ‘throttled competitors, dominated governments, manacled railroads, ruined planters, choked co- operatives, domineered over workers, fought organised labor and exploited consumers’ (Lyall, p.138)


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