World Tokens

Jamaica, Checks, Tickets and Tokens, KINGSTON, Kingston Industrial Works, uniface brass, by P.C. Vendryes, stamped 179, 28.5mm, 6.67g (Lyall –); Palace Amusement Co (1921) Ltd, uniface brass Cycle Park check by P.C. Vendryes, stamped 154, 38mm, 7.64g (Lyall –); Cinema Company of Jamaica Ltd, Carib Theatre, brass Cycle Park checks by P.C. Vendryes (2), square, stamped b 30 both sides, 38mm, 9.20g (Lyall –), round, stamped 398 on front and 911 on back, 38mm, 10.74g (Lyall –); Tropical Cinema Co, uniface brass Cycle Park check by P.C. Vendryes, back stamped 10, 38mm, 7.48g (Lyall –); Unimotors Ltd, uniface brass, by P.C. Vendryes, stamped 106, 28.5mm, 7.35g (Lyall –); WESTMORELAND, West Indies Sugar Co, uniface brass, by P.C. Vendryes, stamped wisco 1853 frome, 38mm, 11.63g (Lyall –) [7]. Generally very fine, mostly now very rare £50-70

Provenance: All bt R.A. Brandon 1989.

Kingston Industrial Works, 1 Darling street, manufacturers of iron and steel products, founded by Vernon Cohen Henriques. The Palace Amusement Co (1921) Ltd, proprietor Audley Morais, controlling interest bought by J. Arthur Rank, 1947. Carib Theatre, Slipe road, built by the Cinema Co of Jamaica in 1938, bought by the Rank Organisation in 1950. Tropical Cinema Co, established by Russell Graham in 1949. Unimotors Ltd, motor factors and distributors, Halfway Tree road. West India Sugar Co, Frome, Westmoreland, was the venue for a major strike over pay in May 1938 during the building of a giant sugar factory where 1,000 workers walked out. The police were called and four workers were killed in the disorder that followed. The pay dispute reverberated around the island, leading to multiple demonstrations in Kingston over the following weeks and to the arrest of Alexander Bustamante, among others