Owner Comments:
Gloucestershire Badminton DH #33
Obverse: A three-masted merchant ship sailing to the right CORN IMPORTED BY GOVERNMENT 1796 * * *
Reverse: A plow and harrow resting of rough heath, an A beneath SUCCESS TO THE CULTIVATION OF WASTE LANDS *
Edge: Plain
Diesinker: Thomas Willets
Manufacturer: Peter Kempson
Issuer: John Jelly and David Arnot
Rarity: Scarce
Mr. Jelly was an attorney and Mr. Arnot was a schoolmaster in Bath. Both were avid collectors of tradesmen tokens and both issued tokens for their own businesses. Mr. Jelly for the Bath Botanical Gardens and Mr. Arnot for the Spa at Holt in Wiltshire.
The Badminton tokens were struck to perpetuate the memory of Henry, 5th Duke of Beaufort (1744-1803) during the corn crisis at the end of the 18th century. The series of tokens consists of seven dies freely mulled together to produce 36 different tokens, each of which were produced in limited numbers.
About 150 tokens struck.
Atkins: Not Local 69
Bt. Al Boulanger