TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS 1209
KINGSTON, Edwin Charley, aluminium, ENTER CHARLEY’S STACK O’SILVER CONTEST TODAY, rev. standing figure holding a bottle of White Label rum, 32mm, 2.72g/12h (Lyall –); Wonards Radio Engineering Ltd, uniface brass, stamped MAYTAG WONARDS, 24mm, 8.08g (Lyall 216; Ford 624; Tankersley 329); Global Gaming Technology Ltd, brass Dollar [2001+], GLOBAL GAMING TECHNOLOGY LTD JAMAICA around globe, rev. value in wreath, 25mm, 5.50g/6h; MONTEGO BAY, Casa Blanca Hotel, brass, CASA BLANCA HOTEL MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA, B.W.I., rev. palm-tree, THE BEACHCOMBER, 32mm, 8.83g/12h (Lyall 179; Ford 619; Tankersley 318); Dog tax, a copper bracteate, stamped 1970, crown and 386, 24mm, 2.06g (Lyall 184; Tankersley 318); Military Dog License, uniface rectangular brass by P.C. Vendryes, c. 1940, stamped 323, 45 x 20mm, 6.04g (Lyall –) [6]. First fine, others very fine
£30-50
Provenance: First bt R.A. Brandon 1991; second gift of R.A. Brandon 1991; fourth bt R. Lyall; fifth gift of R.A. Brandon 1985; sixth bt R.A. Brandon 1989.
Edwin Alexander Charley (1873-1940), an emigrant from British Columbia, established his rum merchant and distillery business in Kingston in the early 1890s. His ‘Charley’s White Label’ rum became highly popular, his subsequent fortune enabling him to acquire the Innswood sugar plantation in St Catherine and a bottling factory in King street. Ill-health forced him to sell the business in 1920; it changed hands again in 1937 and was acquired by Seagram in 1955, when the brand was reintroduced. Wonards Radio Engineering Ltd, headquartered at 55 1/2 Church street; the checks were used to operate Maytag washing machines sited in apartment blocks in Kingston. Global Gaming Technology Ltd or GTECH, the lottery operator in Jamaica, established in partnership with Supreme Ventures Ltd, 2001; the parent company was incorporated in 1973. The Casa Blanca Hotel closed c. 1974; the checks were made by Greg Wright & Sons, Cincinnati, OH (Lyall p.72)
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KINGSTON, Jamaica Waggonette & Express Ltd, oval dark blue rubber One Fare, JAMAICA WAGGONETTE&EXPRESS L’T’D, rev. from the same die as previous, 22 x 17mm, 1.25g/12h (Lyall 193, this piece; Byrne –; Ford –; Tankersley –). Cracked and skilfully glued back together, otherwise fine, exceptionally rare
£150-200
Provenance: E.C. Leslie Collection; Henry Christensen Auction, (New York), 7 April 1978, lot 89
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KINGSTON, Jamaica Waggonette & Express Co Ltd, oval dark blue rubber One Fare, JAMAICA WAGGONETTE & EXPRESS CO L’T’D, rev. value, 22 x 17mm, 1.59g/12h (Lyall 192; Prid. 141; Ford 625 [= Byrne 859 and Tankersley 323]). Some encrustation on obverse, otherwise fine, extremely rare
£200-300 Provenance: Bt P. Bosco 1981.
The Jamaica Wagonnette & Express Co Ltd, 15 Duke street, registered in December 1888, operated a horse-drawn coach service between 1889 and 1894 that was superseded by the Jamaica Street Car Co
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KINGSTON, Mark Howard, copper Penny (?), c. 1795, coach and pair driven to right, rev. groom with saddled horse left, edge grained, 28mm, 10.82g/6h (Lyall 153; Prid. 131; Spink Tn3). Good fine
£40-50
Provenance: Bt R. Margolis April 1964. Mark Howard (†January 1800)
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KINGSTON, Jamaica Street Car Co, light red celluloid One Fare, legend, rev. value, 23.5mm, 0.67g/6h (Lyall 189; Ford 624; Tankersley 322); Jamaica Street Car Co Ltd, octagonal cupro-nickel One Fare (3), legend, revs. value, all 19mm, 2.63g/12h, 2.58g/12h, 2.57g/12h (Lyall 190; Prid. 140; Ford 624; Tankersley 322); Jamaica Public Service Co Ltd, yellow paper Employee One Fare, no. 81, 38 x 24.5mm [5]. One octagonal token extremely fine, others in varied state
£40-50 Provenance: First bt H. Vendryes; last gift of R.A. Brandon 1988.
The Jamaican Street Car Co, proprietors Sam Burke and Tracy Robinson, established the first horse-drawn tramcar service in Kingston in November 1876 and the tickets were in use up to 1897, when the company was sold to the West Indies Electric Co, which itself was superseded by the Jamaica Public Service Co in 1923. The last electric tram in Jamaica ran in May 1948 and all surviving tramcars were sold for scrap in 1949
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KINGSTON, J.L. Kennedy, uniface brass tool checks by P.C. Vendryes (3), CANADA DRY GRAPE BEVERAGE, back stamped D57, 39mm, 2.44g (Lyall –), GINGER BEER, back stamped 84, 27mm, 1.37g (Lyall –), GRAPE SODA ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR AND COLOUR ADDED, back stamped 95, 26mm, 1.38g (Lyall –); Kingston Pumping Station, octagonal brass tool check by P.C. Vendryes, KPS, back stamped 95, 37 x 36mm, 9.52g (Lyall –); Water Commission, Kingston Pumping Station, brass tool check by P.C. Vendryes, stamped 128, back stamped 26, 28mm, 6.49g (Lyall –); People’s National Party, uniface brass, P.N.P. U R above star, JAMAICA ARISE, 38mm, 9.28g (Lyall –); Jamaica Government Railway, uniface brass tool check by American Railway Supply Co, NY, stamped JAMAICA CONTRACT NO. W-958-ENG-129, 15264, 39mm, 9.72g (Lyall 188) [7]. Generally fine, all rare
£40-60
Provenance: Last gift of R.A. Brandon 1985; others bt R.A. Brandon 1990.
J.L. Kennedy, Darlington street. The Jamaica Railway ran its first trains in 1845 and was bought out by the government in 1879. In 1890 it was sold to the West India Improvement Co but this concern went into receivership and the government again assumed responsibility in 1900. Following independence the railway system went into decline and the last passenger trains ran in 1992
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