Watch List notes:

London - Longacre, Basil Burchell (medicine seller) Advertising Halfpenny undated, Seven line legend re 'sugar-plumbs for worms', rev. Eight line legend re, 'cutting teeth', edge plain – white metal and holed 28mm/7.28gm. (DH 259). Another variant, copper and unholed 28.5mm/10gm. (DH 260). Another the same but holed 28.5mm/9.89gm. (DH 260); Another variant, copper and holed, 28.5mm/9.57gm. (DH 261). Another the same but in white-metal, 28.5mm/6.76gm. (DH 261). Another variant, white-metal and unholed, 29mm/8.9gm. (DH 265). Another variant, copper and unholed 29mm/8.83gm. (DH 267). Another variant, copper and holed, 29mm/8.73gm. (DH 268). DH 260, 260 holed, 261, and 268 good Extremely Fine with some original lustre, others generally around Extremely Fine, DH 261 and 265 very rare 'RR'. [8]

DH 265 ex Baldwins Basement Feb. 2018; DH 260 holed, 261copper and 261 white-metal, ex F S Cokayne Col., his tickets, last ex S Hamer sale via Glendining's 26 Nov 1930 acquired from AHB 20 Jan 1931 for 15/-. Acquired AHB c 1946; DH 268 ex H C Drury Col., his ticket, sold via Glendining's, 24 Apr 1940.

These tokens are also found officially holed so that they could be attached to the 'anodyne necklace' which a baby used for teething. The necklaces were sold at 5 shillings and 5 pence each and possibly consisted of beads of peony wood which could be sucked by teething children to relieve the pain in their gums. The 'sugar-plumbs' contained the active ingredient of lead acetate, which probably proved more fatal to the patient than it did to the worms !