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[Mackaydon]

Great token with history:

The obverse design uses implements, and includes an anvil with hammer and tongs and a bench vice to the right. Struck on a copper flan it was a better weight than most, being 11% below standard and would have been accepted in Lower Canada. This issue was condemned by the newspaper “Le Populaire” as a “profiteering scam,” however specimens are often well worn and appear to have had long use. . Undated it is known that two kegs were sent from Birmingham and issued about 1832. Thomas Storrow Brown was born in 1803 and became a leader of young revolutionaries, mainly of French descent, during the 1837 Rebellion against the Establishment. He lost an eye in one encounter and after a further fight with British troops fled to Florida. He did not return home until the amnesty of 1844. He then had better fortune, re-established his firm and lived a long and prosperous life. Don in SoCal.

 

[mikefromIllinois]

very nice finds. Congrats.

 

[ironhorse]

Beautiful luckenbooth trade silver brooch Guy!
Museum quality!

And the token is in perfect condition, well done!

 

[pepperj]

Guy you really had a great hunt.
Congrats on the beautiful piece of trade silver Owl Heart brooch.
Liking the 1832 1/2 penny token as well.

 

[pepperj]

Beautiful luckenbooth trade silver brooch Guy!
Museum quality!

And the token is in perfect condition, well done!

These hearts seem to have a few different reference names. Luckenbrooth, Owl, Heart, Queen Mary
Here is an interesting read from a early 1900's report article

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/aa.1910.12.3.02a00010

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Excellent finds - congrats !

 

[nagant]

Officially spring now! Thanks GuyToken for your posts, really enjoy seeing trade period items. You beat me to that link pepperj, i cant wait to finish reading it. Somewhere i have a copy of where two worlds collide that has some beautiful pic's and info, good hunting to you!

 

[Red-Coat]

Great finds. Just a little more on Brown's tokens:

Brown imported around 800 pounds (weight) of these tokens from Birmingham, England and began issuing them in June 1832. They were intended to serve as halfpennies but produced below the standard of Regal currency at sixty to the pound, so almost 50,000 of them in total. His costs were one shilling and fivepence per pound, including the amortised cost for the dies, of which there are three known obverse varieties. Brown sold them to merchants at the rate of fifty cents per pound, making a handsome profit and justifying this on the basis he was providing a public service to alleviate the desperate shortage of small change.

 

[nagant]

from pepperj's link,,,,At this time Indian favors could not be purchased with trinkets of brass, and the French and English, each eager for trade and prestige, began to shower silver ornaments upon the eastern aborigines until their shirts are sometimes described as being so thickly covered with them that they looked like armor. Some families are said to have had a bushel of brooches.

 

[Digger RJ]

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Very Cool!!! Congrats!!!

 

[scruggs]

Congratulations on some very cool finds!

 

[Silvermonkey]

Excellent finds all around! The silver brooch is an extra special find. Well done.