Owner Comments:
Yorkshire Bedale DH #9c
Obverse: A perspective view of a street with two signboards, a spire of a church in the distance, clouds overhead Ex: 1792
Reverse: A cypher IOM between branches of laurel, the legend JAMES . METCALF above and BEDAL . YORKSH. Below, the two parts of the legend separated by small ornaments
Edge: Plain (not in collar)
Diesinker: Unknown
Manufacturer: Paul Skidmore
Rarity: Common
The view represents the High Street of Bedale, with the two principal inns of the time, the Blace Swan and the New Inn. The church shown was dedicated to St. Gregory.
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.
Atkins: Yorkshire 11b
Bt. Davisson E-Auction #51, 23 July 2025