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Auction T16  2 Oct 2019
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Lot 281

Estimate: 50 GBP
Price realized: 150 GBP
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World Tokens, the Property of a North Country Collector

Jamaica, Employee Pay or Identification tags (8), all uniface, brass, some holed as issued; PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD around DRIVER/255, 38mm; PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD around CONDUCTOR/352, 38mm; West Indies Sugar Co, WISCO/1853/FROME, 38mm; United Motors, c. 1933, UNIMOTORS/106, 29mm; Kingston Industrial Works, KINGSTON INDUSTRIAL WKS around 179, 28mm (cf. Roehrs 1215); A. C. of Jamaica, 250/A C OF J, 29mm; REEMA 296, 38mm; 17 M.T. Co., 38mm (none listed in Lyall) [8]. Generally very fine £50-£70

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West India Sugar Co., Frome, Westmoreland was the venue for a major strike over pay in May 1938 during the building of a giant sugar factory were 1000 workers walked out. The police were called and four workers were killed in the disorder that followed. The jjpay dispute reverberated around the island, leading to multiple demonstrations in Kingston over the following weeks
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