Lot 97
Typical stippled inscription
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- Coins, Monies & Stamps Notes:
- Convict Love Tokens have been romantically described as ‘postcards before leaving’ but they were actually very sad mementos of relationships torn asunder by the courts and the tyranny of distance. It was common for a small ‘cottage industry’ to spring up in each prison turning out these crude tokens for convicts with parting messages of love to a wife, sibling, friend or lover that they were unlikely to ever see again once they were transported to Australia. Most were crafted from smoothed English pennies upon whose surfaces the messages were either lightly scratched or stippled by means of a sharp point being dug into the surface of the metal. Stippled onto the surface of this token is the message : " WHEN THIS YOU SEE REMEMBER ME / UNTIL I GET MY LIBERTY / RACHEL BARRINGTON / SEPT 8 1831". There is also a light engraving on one side of a sailing ship and on the other side the figure of a man. There appears no corresponding record of a Rachel Barrington being transported to Australia and so it is assumed that she was the recipient of the token passed to her by a departing common law husband or lover. The inscription of her name has the appearance of being added by another hand and possibly at a later date which concurs with an attempt to personalise the message on the token left to her.
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