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Auction T16 2 Oct 2019
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World Tokens, the Property of a North Country Collector
Trinidad, PORT OF SPAIN, H.E. Rapsey, Half Stampee (at the time 1 cent), legend around value, rev. legend around a shamrock, thistle and rose, copper, 27mm (Lyall 508; Prid. 5). Fine with some surface corrosion and dark toning, rare £150-£200
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Provenance: Bt. C. B. Fox, 1987
Horatio Edwin Rapsey emigrated from England to Trinidad prior to 1860. He established a bakery and grocery business at 9 Fredrick Street which passed to his son John Alfred Rapsey about 1887. The token was issued c. 1860 (certainly prior to 1868)
Trinidad, PORT OF SPAIN, H.E. Rapsey, Half Stampee (at the time 1 cent), legend around value, rev. legend around a shamrock, thistle and rose, copper, 27mm (Lyall 508; Prid. 5). Fine with some surface corrosion and dark toning, rare £150-£200
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Provenance: Bt. C. B. Fox, 1987
Horatio Edwin Rapsey emigrated from England to Trinidad prior to 1860. He established a bakery and grocery business at 9 Fredrick Street which passed to his son John Alfred Rapsey about 1887. The token was issued c. 1860 (certainly prior to 1868)