TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS
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KINGSTON, Verley & Robinson Ltd, shield-shaped aluminium One Penny Loaf, VERLEY & ROBINSON LTD, stamped 2955, rev. value, 26 x 24mm, 1.44g/12h (Lyall 210; cf. Prid. 155; Ford 628; Tankersley 326). Extremely fine but reverse tarnished, rare
£150-200 Provenance: Bt R.A. Brandon
MORANT BAY, I.J. Mordecai & Co, cupro-nickel Three-Halfpence, c. 1880, name around value, rev. legend, 19mm, 2.31g/12h (Lyall 156; Prid. 146). Tarnished, otherwise about very fine, rare
£100-150 Provenance: Bt R.C. Soxman May 1972.
Ivanhoe Joseph Mordecai (1855-1923), b. Kingston, dry goods and hardware merchant, fl. c. 1880-1915, owner of Stanton estate, senior resident JP for St Thomas, 1916
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KINGSTON, Louis Winkler & Son, octagonal aluminium Threepence, LOUIS WINKLER & SON KINGSTON, JA around 18 KING ST., rev. value, 22mm, 1.30g/12h (Lyall 215; Prid. 156; Ford 629; Tankersley –). Virtually as struck, very rare
£150-200 Provenance: Bt D. Megill 1977.
Louis Winkler (1849-1929), b. Sopron, Hungary, emigrated to New York before arriving in Jamaica in 1881, where he earnt a living tuning and repairing keyboards. In 1884 he opened the island’s first music shop, Louis Winkler & Co, Music Warehouse, at 18 King street, joined in the enterprise by his son Lewis B. Winkler (1889 -1955) in 1908. The checks, manufactured by Quints & Sons, Philadelphia, PA, were issued between 1908 and 1920, when Louis Winkler retired, their introduction perhaps because of competition from Cowen Music Rooms which had set up next door, run by Astley Clerk, a former employee of Winkler
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NEW RAMBLE, Leo George Silvera, bracteate copper Threepence, c. 1900, legend around value, 24mm, 2.25g (Lyall 158, this piece; Prid. –; Doty/Kleeberg/Leonard p.233, fig. 15, this piece; Byrne 870, this piece). A few spots of verdigris on the back, otherwise very fine, of the highest rarity; perhaps the only known specimen £300-400
Provenance: R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-14 June 1975, lot 870.
Leopold George Silvera (c. 1864-1916), shopkeeper, Idlewild, near Oracabessa, acquired the New Ramble estate in 1896 and was a JP in 1901
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KINGSTON, Louis Winkler & Son, octagonal aluminium Penny, similar, 21mm, 1.36g/12h (Lyall 214; Prid. 156; Ford –; Tankersley –). Edge damage, otherwise extremely fine, extremely rare; thought to be only 3 known
£150-200 Provenance: Bt R.A. Brandon 1987
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KINGSTON, Louis Winkler & Son, aluminium Halfpenny, similar, 19mm, 0.98g/12h (Lyall 213; Prid. 156; Ford 629; Tankersley –). Minor spotting on reverse, otherwise virtually as struck, very rare
£150-200 Provenance: Bt D. Megill 1977
ST DOROTHY, Kelly’s Estate, Marquis of Sligo, white metal Shilling, name above value, rev. PAYABLE…EACH FRIDAY EVENG 6 O’CLOCK, 36mm, 14.29g/6h (Lyall 159; Prid. 147, this piece illustrated [Sale, lot 129]; D & W 338/47). Central hole unpierced, trifling rim nicks and surface marks, otherwise extremely fine and extremely rare; one of the classic tokens in the West Indies series £800-1,000
Provenance: Bt Spink 1976. 1226
KINGSTON, Louis Winkler & Son, aluminium Farthing, similar, 19mm, 0.95g/12h (Lyall 212; Prid. 156; Ford 629; Tankersley 328). Extremely fine but some slight surface corrosion on reverse, very rare
£150-200 Provenance: Bt D. Megill 1977 Additional lot images may be found on our website
Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquis of Sligo, KP, PC (1788-1845), formerly styled Viscount Westport and Earl of Altamont, acquired Kelly’s Estate, a sugar plantation, some time before his appointment as the Governor-General and Vice-Admiral of Jamaica in 1834. After his governorship was terminated in 1835 Sligo rented the estate to Alexandre Bravo (†March 1868), a newly- appointed Jewish member of the Jamaican assembly who represented Kingston and had owned 1,000 slaves. Bravo subsequently purchased it and another neighbouring estate owned by the Marquis in 1842, to add to his extensive property interests on the island; he subsequently served as Jamaica’s Auditor- General from 1851 to 1867. It would seem that the tokens were used to pay the newly-emancipated slaves on a weekly basis (Lyall, p.62)
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