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Lot of 23 Jamaican tokens and fruit-trade tallies from the early 1900s, various metals and companies

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Medals & Tokens Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 375.00 USD
Lot of 23 Jamaican tokens and fruit-trade tallies from the early 1900s, various metals and companies
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Lot of 23 Jamaican tokens and fruit-trade tallies from the early 1900s, various metals and companies, some rare. Anyone who has ever heard the calypso song "The Banana Boat Song" by Harry Belafonte ("Come Mr. Tallyman, tally me bananas...") will relate to this lot of tokens used to pay the workers. This lot consists of nine uniface aluminum checks of all different shapes (and all basically UNC) marked with just K.W.L. for Kingston Wharves Ltd. (various Lyall numbers) plus 14 fruit-trade tally tokens (all Fine or so except for last, which is XF with hole at top) specifically attributed as follows: Brimmer Hall Estate (St Mary), square iron bracteate, stamped bh, 25 x 24mm, 1.86g (Lyall 295); two Jamaica Banana Producers’ Association Ltd, aluminum, 1932, 1937, both 27mm, 1.47g/12h, 1.97g/12h (Lyall 327, 328); Jamaica Fertilizer Products Ltd (Falmouth), aluminum 1 [Basket], 27mm, 1.50g/12h (Lyall 329); four Jamaica Fruit & Shipping Co Ltd (Kingston), aluminum, 1923, 1928 (2), 1930, 20mm and 27mm, 1.11g, 1.47g, 1.45g (Lyall 330-336); Magnus & Tinling (St Mary), uniface brass, stamped mt, 23.5mm, 3.57g (Lyall unl.; Rulau 102; Roehrs 1194); United Fruit Co, brass, stamped b [Bowden], 20mm, 2.51g (Lyall 415), uniface aluminum, stamped u.f.co., 21mm, 1.58g (Lyall 426), oblong aluminum, u.f.co p.l. [Portland Loading], 23 x 17mm, 1.03g (Lyall 433); Wentworth Estate (St Mary), zinc bracteate, stamped w, 24mm, 1.67g (Lyall 442); Woodstock Estate (Buff Bay), uniface brass, stamped s.s.w.b.b. [Stephen Stedman, Woodstock, Buff Bay], 22.5mm, 3.42g (Lyall 446).