World Tokens

Jamaica, Banana and Fruit Trade Work Tallies, Phoenix Fruit Co (Kingston), aluminium, p.f.co., ornaments above and below, rev. jamaica, ornaments above and below, 19mm, 0.91g/12h (Lyall 352, this piece illustrated; Ford 655, this piece; Tankersley 353). Crude piercing and some edge marks, otherwise very fine and very rare; four specimens known £100-150

Provenance: R.J. Ford Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 79, 15 October 1990, lot 655.

Phoenix Fruit Co, shipping agents and estate owners, established 1915, ceased trading in 1931