Baldwin & Sons
Auction 107 5 Oct 2022
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Glamorgan [probably Merthyr Tydfil], William Taitt, Richard Crawshay and Samuel Homfray,
Jorden's Halfpenny, 1795, a uniface trial of the rev. die in its original state on a partially struck blank
for the Brimscombe Port, Thames & Severn Canal Co, Halfpenny [DH Glos 60], Britannia seated left,
pointing to left, Y BRENHIN AR GYFRAITH, rev. faint incuse 'brockage' impression of the Sapperton
tunnel entrance to the canal, edge PAYABLE AT 'RIMSCOMBE PORT, 29.5mm/10.20gm. (DH 2, this
piece; Waters, 1957, p.40 ['now unknown']).
Ex. Michael Col; Ex. W. Norman Col. via, Sotheby's, 13-15 Jul. 1903, lot 417 (part); Ex. S.H. Hamer Col. via, Glendining's, 26-8 Nov. 1930, lot 497 (part) [from J. Verity]; Ex. DNW 19. Mar. 2009, lot 456.
This piece was last sold in auction in 2009 (£2,280.) which is when it surfaced after the disposal of the Hamer
collection some eighty years previously. It is a famed rarity, the plate coin of Dalton & Hamer – but more
interestingly it indicates the connection between token manufactures Hancock and Westwood and the diesinker Jorden who were all working out of Birmingham. Hancock/Westwood manufactured the Thames & Severn Canal Co. token in early 1795 when John Stubbs Jorden was apprenticed to Hancock as a diesinker. The Glamorgan token was issued at the end of this year just after Jorden went on his own and became a medallist in his own right. The fact that this token includes elements of both issues (Brimscombe and Glamorgan), backed up by another token in existence, a Brimscombe halfpenny with a Glamorgan edge, indicates a connection and a crossover period in the summer of 1795 in the production of the two issues.
Jorden's Halfpenny, 1795, a uniface trial of the rev. die in its original state on a partially struck blank
for the Brimscombe Port, Thames & Severn Canal Co, Halfpenny [DH Glos 60], Britannia seated left,
pointing to left, Y BRENHIN AR GYFRAITH, rev. faint incuse 'brockage' impression of the Sapperton
tunnel entrance to the canal, edge PAYABLE AT 'RIMSCOMBE PORT, 29.5mm/10.20gm. (DH 2, this
piece; Waters, 1957, p.40 ['now unknown']).
Ex. Michael Col; Ex. W. Norman Col. via, Sotheby's, 13-15 Jul. 1903, lot 417 (part); Ex. S.H. Hamer Col. via, Glendining's, 26-8 Nov. 1930, lot 497 (part) [from J. Verity]; Ex. DNW 19. Mar. 2009, lot 456.
This piece was last sold in auction in 2009 (£2,280.) which is when it surfaced after the disposal of the Hamer
collection some eighty years previously. It is a famed rarity, the plate coin of Dalton & Hamer – but more
interestingly it indicates the connection between token manufactures Hancock and Westwood and the diesinker Jorden who were all working out of Birmingham. Hancock/Westwood manufactured the Thames & Severn Canal Co. token in early 1795 when John Stubbs Jorden was apprenticed to Hancock as a diesinker. The Glamorgan token was issued at the end of this year just after Jorden went on his own and became a medallist in his own right. The fact that this token includes elements of both issues (Brimscombe and Glamorgan), backed up by another token in existence, a Brimscombe halfpenny with a Glamorgan edge, indicates a connection and a crossover period in the summer of 1795 in the production of the two issues.