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Pidcock Info Please + My Latest Pidcock Purcgase

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 Posted 12/20/2018  08:24 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add FuzzyDuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
My latest purchase, what is the significance of 'James'? I have seen it written on many tokens but not sure why.
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 Posted 12/20/2018  09:16 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BigSilver to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Very interesting token.
I imagine James may be the engraver.
EDIT:
Here is what I found on an information site.

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Charles James made the Pidcock tokens when he was in London in his second period, 1795-1801
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Ah that makes sense. Thank you for the help!
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The Exeter Change, originally called the Exeter Exchange, was a building built on the site of Exeter House, The Strand, London in 1676 and demolished in 1829. It was intended for small businesses, but later became the home of a menagerie.

J Pidcock was the proprietor. He passed it to Gilbert Pidcock, who died in 1810. It was then taken over by Thomas Clark and later Edward Cross.

What you have is an advertising ticket for the menagerie. As they were made in halfpenny and farthing sizes they were used as small change.

This die pairing is DH1067 in farthing size. Diesinker and manufacturer James.

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This is confirmed as the farthing by the shape of the elephant's trunk. Here it points at the animal's mouth. In the halfpenny, the trunk points at the ground.

Interestingly, James Conder in his catalogue of 1798 lists a farthing which is almost certainly this piece, Middlesex 365

obverse:

An Elephant, "Pidcocks Exhibition."

reverse:

A Paroquet, standing on the Branch of a Tree, "Exeter Change, Strand, London."

( Quotes are exact, including spellings/capitals etc ).
No illustrations on Conder's work.
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