Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Tickets and Checks (Post-1830), Douglas, Sheffield Hotel, Charles Gallimore, brass Twopence, c. 1860, legend around value, rev. plain, edge grained, 26mm, 5.63g (Quarmby 97; Mackay 141; cf. R.J. Ford I, 238; cf. Guard 515). Very fine and very rare £150-200

Provenance: R. Cain Collection, Spink Auction 145, 12-14 July 2000, lot 2786 (part).

Charles Gallimore, proprietor, Sheffield Hotel, 14 Parade street, located opposite the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co offices, fl. 1860-mid 1870s. In the 1881 Census returns he was listed as aged 72, trading as a tobacconist at the Sheffield Bazaar, 54 North Quay, where he is known to have been in 1889. Gallimore hailed from Sheffield, hence the name of the hotel, which was demolished in the 1930s during the redevelopment of Lower Douglas (Alan Kelly, pers. comm.)