Owner Comments:
Middlesex Skidmore's Churches and Gates DH #630a
Obverse: A south view of St. Mary's church, Stoke Newington STOKE . NEWINGTON. Ex: JACOBS in small letters | CHURCH.
Reverse: The Skidmore cypher - PSCO in script DEDICATED TO COLLECTORS OF MEDALS & COINS . surrounding
Edge: Plain
Diesinker: Benjamin Jacobs
Manufacturer: Paul Skidmore
Rarity: Rare
St. Mary’s is a parish church in Stoke, Newington, London Borough of Hackney. The church depicted was built in 1563 by the Lord of the Manor William Patten for the Manor of Newington. A new St. Mary’s was built in 1858 adjacent to this church, which now an arts venue.
The family business of the token manufacturer Peter Skidmore was an iron foundry at 15 Coppice Row in Clerkenwell with a shop at No. 123, High Holborn. Skidmore realized that there was a market for tokens as the genuine tradesmen's pieces of the time were very keenly collected as they were issued. As well as making genuine tradesmens' tokens to order, he also made pennies and halfpennies for sale to collectors of the time - especially series of Buildings Tokens for London.
One of a set of 120 pieces - each portraying a well-known church in or around London.
Atkins: Middlesex 484
Bt. Stacks Bowers Sale, 2 November 2023