Greenside street, token issued in 1829 (Andison, TCSB 6, p.463). Reith, grocer, tea, wine and spirit dealer, 1 West row. J. Reynolds, St Leonards. Alexander Robb, tinsmith, 289 Canongate. Thomas Rodgers, tea and spirit dealer, 123 Canongate. Alexander Russell, tea and spirit dealer, 106 High street and 243 Canongate. 1120-2
Robert Sanderson & Co, drapers and haberdashers, 17 South bridge (Andison, TCSB 7, pp.487-8). 1123
Scuogall (sic) & Drysdale, tea, coffee and sugar merchants, 223 High street and 14 South James street, proprietor James Scougall, tokens issued after 1832 (Andison, TCSB 6, p.463). D. Sinclair, tea and spirit dealer, 14 The Terrace, fl. 1811-19 (Andison, TCSB 6, p.459). John Steele, chandler and tinsmith, 224 Canongate. Steuart, grocer. D. Swanston, tea, wine and spirit merchant, corner of Brown street and Pleasance. Robert Thallon, grocer and tea dealer, 370 Gallowgate, fl. 1815-23. 1124
Shaw, grocer, tea, wine and spirit dealer, 17 West Bow, Grassmarket. 1125 P. Thomson, grocer and spirit dealer, 259 High street. A.J. & M. Walker, tea and spirit dealers, 5 Leith street, fl. 1817-22, formerly T. Blackie, in business 1815 at 22 Greenside street (DH 73, not in Brown collection), then Walker, Blackie & Co (Andison, TCSB 6, p.460). 1126
Walker, Blackie & Co (later A.J. & M. Walker), 5 Leith street, in business 1816 (Andison, TCSB 6, p.460). John Watt, tobacconist, 21 Charles street; the token would appear to date to c. 1820. James Williamson, tea, wine and spirit dealer, 76 Nicolson street. James Winton, tobacconist and snuff shop proprietor, 6 Catherine street, fl. 1817-22 (Andison, TCSB 6, p.460). 1127 D. Wemyss, tea and spirit dealer, 21 Abbey, fl. 1814-29 (Andison, TCSB 6, p.459). 1128-9
James Wright Jr (1768-98), numismatist; the excellent article by D.W. Dykes (SNC July-August 1996, pp.195-9) shows how influential Wright became in the design of Scottish tokens and medallic art generally, right up to the time of his premature death in April 1798. The issuer’s name on DH 57 is presumed to be a pseudonym (Dykes, op. cit). 1131-2
It is quite possible that Alexander Cornwell (see Lot 1101) was also the issuer of these tokens, which have design similarities to DH 69. 1133
David Grieve, grocer and spirit dealer, 46 Kirkgate. John White, grocer and spirit dealer, Kirkgate. W. Watt, grocer, tea and spirit dealer. Alexander Grieve, grocer, tea and spirit dealer. 1134-7
John Ferrier, hosier. For the attribution of DH 11 to Ferrier, see Dykes, SNC July-August 1996, p.196. 1138
Patrick Maxwell, grocer and spirit dealer. David Peter, grocer and spirit dealer. 1139-40
Revd Robert Boog, DD (1746-1823), b. Edinburgh, ordained minister of the Abbey Church, Paisley, in April 1774, married Mary Fulton (†May 1827) on 26 February 1781, they had eight children. He was a friend of James Wright Jr (Dykes, SNC July- August 1996, p.196) and through his exertions the Paisley medical dispensary and the Paisley house of recovery were erected.
1141
Jervis Coats & Son, ham curers and grocers, 38 Broomlands, listed in Fowler’s 1830-1 directory; it is on record that a certain Hugh Shaw (1713-1826, aged 113), a weaver from Elderslie who served in the army and fought at Dettingen and Culloden and was later a street beggar at Paisley, “what farthings he received were mostly those issued by Mr Jervis Coats, hamcurer, Broomlands, and always on returning home he called on Mr Coats to get them exchanged for current coin of the realm.” Peter Taylor, tobacconist, 215 High street. 1142
John Reid, grocer and chandler. 1143
Thomas Brown, grocer and tea merchant. Thomas Glen, draper, grocer and tea merchant. Stephen Mitchell & Son, tobacconist. 1144
DH 8 is a mule using the reverse of the farthing issued by Dickson & McDougal (DH 76).
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