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Create new listThackery, Stockdale & Co, a partnership between James Stockdale (1724-1806), an entrepreneur who lived at Cark House, Joseph Thackery and Joseph Ryder, Manchester cotton merchants, Thomas Satterthwaite, a West Indian merchant from Lancaster, and Edward Hardy (†1796), an engineer from Mossley, operated the Cark cotton mill. One of James Watt’s first steam-engines was installed at Cark in 1786, which was in full production by 1787.
Merchant Issues - silver, England, LANCASHIRE, Cark-in-Cartmel, Cark Cotton Works, a MEXICO, Charles III, 8 Reales, 1785fm, Mexico City, obv. countermarked cark cotton works 1787, rev. countermarked four shillings and six pence, 26.82g/12h (Manville 101; Hodge 101aE.012a, this coin). Coin about very fine and toned, countermarks better £1,500-£2,000
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Scottish Merchant Dollars from the Collection of Michael Gietzelt.
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Glendining Auction, 13 April 1988, lot 188; DNW Auction 89, 29 September 2010, lot 1929
The dates of the host coins of this issue suggest a circulation period c. 1787-1798 [Manville p.202].
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