Post-Medieval — Mid 17th century; 1648-1673; 1656
The Bear Tavern
This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued at the White Bear tavern in Cornhill, Cornhill Ward, City of London.
Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 717; Obv inscription: AT.THE.BEARE.TAVERN (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A bear (in field); Rev inscription: IN.CORNHILL.1656 (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = R.W.D. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).
The issuer is Robert Dowse, Vinter. bd. St Michael Cornhill 1661; wife Winifred; sign the White Bear, see Kenneth Rogers, 'On some issuers of seventeenth-century London tokens whose names were not known to Boyne and WIlliamson', NC, 5th series 8 (1928), p. 71. See also token number 6812 in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 59, The Norweb Collection: Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750, Part VII - City of London.
- Category:
- Post-Medieval
- Object ID:
- NN16720
- Object name:
- The Bear Tavern
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Dowse, Robert, Dowse, Winifred
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- Production date:
- mid 17th century; 1648-1673; 1656
- Material:
copper alloy
- Measurements/duration:
- DM 16 mm, WT 1.11 g
- Part of:
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- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 80%
- Part of this object:
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- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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