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CASTRIES, Peter and Co, uniface brass (3), PETER AND CO around N [Night], seriffed lettering, 25mm, 3.87g (Lyall 483; Devaux type 19; Prid. – [Sale, lot 333]; Ford 684; Tankersley 379); similar, sans serif letters, 44 dots in border, 25mm, 3.13g (Lyall 484; Devaux type 17; Prid. 12 var [Sale, lot 331]; Ford 684; Tankersley 379); similar, sans serif letters, 46 dots in border, 24mm, 3.30g (Lyall 485; Devaux type 18; Prid. 12 [Sale, lot 332]; Ford –; Tankersley 379) [3]. Second fine, others about very fine
£70-90 Provenance: First two bt 1975
TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS Tickets and Checks
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CASTRIES, The Peter Coaling Co Ltd, uniface brass (4), oval Shilling, THE PETER COALING CO LD around value, 44 x 23mm, 5.88g (Lyall 489; Devaux type 28; Prid. 8 [Sale, lot 340]; Ford 686; Tankersley 380); round Fourpence (2), similar, second a die variety, both 39mm, 8.79g, 8.97g (Lyall 487, 488; Devaux types 26, 27; Prid. 11 and var [Sale, lot 339]; Ford 685; Tankersley 380); round Twopence, similar, 32mm, 6.15g (Lyall 486; Devaux type 25; Prid. – [Sale, lot 338]; Ford 685; Tankersley 380) [4]. All stained or spotted, fine and better, particularly the last £80-100
Provenance: First J.K. McDowell Collection, Coin Galleries Mailbid Sale, 15 November 1989 (1221, part); third bt I. Rudman 1978; fourth bt R.A. Byrne August 1973
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CASTRIES, The Peter Coaling Co Ltd, uniface square brass (2), THE PETER COALING CO LD around D [Day], same dies but one with I of COALING very weak, both 26mm, 4.81g, 4.63g (Lyall 490 and p.160, footnote; Devaux types 29, 30; Prid. 10 [Sale, lot 341]; Ford 686; Tankersley 380) [2]. Stained, fine
£40-60
Provenance: First bt K. Fischer August 1971; second R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-14 June 1975, lot 1035
CASTRIES, Government, uniface rectangular copper Labour Ticket (authorised July 1831), stamped 71, 40 x 38mm, 17.32g (Lyall 475, this piece illustrated). Pierced as issued, surface somewhat dull, otherwise very fine and of the highest rarity; only one other specimen known
£100-150
Provenance: From a hoard of 150 pieces discovered at the offices of the newly established National Provident Fund, Castries, 1970, by Jim Jordan.
See R.J. Devaux, ‘A Century of Coaling in St Lucia, including a description of the Coaling Tokens’ (SNC February 1975, p.54) for specific details of the July 1831 legislation relating to these historical labour tickets, only issued to qualified labourers, free or slaves. Upon discovery of the hoard in 1970 authorisation was given for the tickets to be scrapped, but nos. 45 and 71 were saved
CASTRIES, Public Works Department, uniface brass badge, stamped 841 P.W.D, 38mm, 14.79g (Lyall 493, this piece illustrated). Fine to very fine, rare
£30-40 Provenance: R.A. Brandon Collection; bt C. Plante April 2005 Sierra Leone
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CASTRIES, The Peter Coaling Co Ltd, uniface brass, ST PETER COALING CO LD around N [Night], 24.5mm, 3.32g (Lyall 491; Devaux type 31; Prid. 9 [Sale, lot 343]; Ford 686; Tankersley 380). Good fine
£30-40 Provenance: Bt C. Plante 1974
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Macaulay & Babington, Penny, 1807 [struck in 1814], European and negro clasping hands, African village behind, rev. legend in Arabic, 36mm, 16.95g/12h (Vice 1; KM. Tn1.1). About very fine
£70-90 Provenance: Bt Baldwin June 1968. 1282
CASTRIES, Royal Mail Steam Packet Co, uniface brass, R.M.S.P. CO. SAINT LUCIA, wreath below, 25.5mm, 5.57g (Lyall 496; Devaux type 9; Prid. 18; Ford 687; Tankersley 383). Central hole, good fine, rare
£70-90
Provenance: J.K. McDowell Collection, Coin Galleries Mailbid Sale, 15 November 1989 (1221, part).
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co established a private coal yard in 1883 but had ceased coaling operations on the island in 1919, by which time Minvielle & Chastanet were acting as their agents
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Macaulay & Babington, Pennies (2), both 1807 [struck in 1814], similar, both 36mm, 16.56g/12h. 16.50g/12h (Vice 1; KM. Tn1.1) [2]. Fine and better
£90-120
Provenance: First bt A. Almanzar 1978; second T. Millett FPL 2007 (361)
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Zachary Macaulay (1768-1838), b. Inverary, Scotland, emigrated to Jamaica in 1784 where he worked on a sugar plantation and started to take an interest in slaves and their welfare. Returning to London in 1789, he effected introductions to William Wilberforce and others known to his brother-in-law, Thomas Babington (1758 -1837). He first visited Sierra Leone in 1790 and became the governor in Freetown from 1794 to 1799, then secretary of the Sierra Leone Co from 1799 to the dissolvement of the company in 1808, after which he became an independent trader to Africa, at first on his own account and later with his nephew, Thomas Gisborne Babington (1788-1871). In later life Macaulay was a prime mover towards securing the total abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire
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