Jamaica, Banana and Fruit Trade Work Tallies, H.V. Lindo (St Catherine), uniface brass (2), stamped h.v.l., one with five additional 8 stamps, both 19.5mm, 2.37g, 2.40g (Lyall 346 and variant; Ford 651, this piece; Tankersley 351); uncertain attribution, uniface brass, stamped l, 16mm, 2.57g (Lyall –; Ford –; Tankersley –); uncertain attribution (St Mary), uniface aluminium, stamped csm or scm monogram, 28.5mm, 1.64g (Lyall 347; Ford 652; Tankersley 352); Morris Park Estate (St Catherine), uniface brass, stamped n [Nairn], 23mm, 6.31g (Lyall 350; Ford 653; Tankersley –) [5]. First with large punched Standard hole, second and fourth pierced as issued, generally fine, all rare £100-150

Provenance: Second R.J. Ford Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 79, 15 October 1990, lot 651; third found on Jamaica, bt R.A. Brandon 1991; others bt R.A. Brandon.

Harold Vincent Lindo (b. 1888, †by 1969), sugar and banana planter, Bog Walk, St Catherine, agent for the Atlantic Fruit Co at Riversdale, St Catherine. Morris Park estate, proprietor Duncan Allan Nairn, who introduced a tally system in 1964