The Bakers' Arms

Michael Rayner issued this trade token, worth a half penny, for his business in Blackman Street, Southwark.

Boyne & Williamson (1891) reference Southwark number 194A; Obv inscription: MICHAEL.RAYNER.IN (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = The Bakers' arms (in field); Rev inscription: BLACKMAN.STREET.1667 (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = HIS / HALFE / PENNY / M.E.R. (in four lines of Roman capitals with triad of initials as bottom, in field).

The arms of the Worshipful Company of Bakers are: Gules three Garbs Or on a chief barry wavy of six Argent and Azure two anchors Or cabled Gules over all issuant from a cloud proper radiated in chief Or a cubit arm descending therefrom vested Argent cuffed Sable the hand proper holding a balance (J. Bromley, The Armorial Bearings of the Guilds of London: a record of the heraldry of the surviving companies with historical notes; with...[illustrations] by Heather Child...(London, 1960).