World Tokens

Jamaica, Checks, Tickets and Tokens, kingston, Kingston & Liguanea Water Works Co, brass Three-Halfpence, kingston and liguanea waterworks compy around founded 1848, rev. retail sales 8 pails 1 1/2d e. levy collector, 34mm, 11.64g/12h (Lyall 194; Prid. 143; Ford 626 [= Tankersley 324]) Obverse fine, reverse mediocre, very rare; very few specimens known £100-150

Provenance: Bt R.A. Brandon 1984.

The Kingston & Liguanea Water Works Co, incorporated in 1842, began negotiating to lease, pending purchase, part of the Hope Estate from the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos in 1848. The negotiations, which concluded in 1850, resulted in the company acquiring over 600 acres of land, with buildings, for £6,215. Within a short space of time pipes had been laid from the Hope river and Kingston’s citizens could enjoy running water for the first time since 1777. The Jamaican government bought out the company in 1871 and Edmund Levy is recorded as the collector in 1878