Post by Matt on Aug 22, 2013 7:43:02 GMT -5
So I found my first token about a month ago, it was a
T.S BROWN & CO IMPORTERS OF HARDWARE MONTREAL
its from the 1830's
Another version of an obverse design uses implements, and includes an anvil with hammer and tongs and a bench vice to the right (Figure 15). Struck on a copper flan it was a better weight than most, being 11% below standard and would have been accepted in Lower Canada. This issue was condemned by the newspaper “Le Populaire” as a “profiteering scam,” however specimens are often well worn and appear to have had long use. The reverse (Figure 16) names the issuers as T.S. Brown and Co a Montreal Importer of Hardwares (sic). Undated it is known that two kegs were sent from Birmingham and issued about 1832. Thomas Storrow Brown was born in 1803 and became a leader of young revolutionaries, mainly of French descent, during the 1837 Rebellion against the Establishment. He lost an eye in one encounter and after a further fight with British troops fled to Florida. He did not return home until the amnesty of 1844. He then had better fortune, re-established his firm and lived a long and prosperous life.
from.... Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
BROWN , THOMAS STORROW , hardware merchant, journalist, Patriote, and writer; b. in 1803 at St Andrews, N.B., son of Henry Barlow Brown, a merchant, and Rebecca Appleton; m. in 1829 Jane Hughes (d. 1833), and m. secondly in 1860 Hester Livingstone; d. 26 Dec. 1888 in Montreal, Que.
T.S BROWN & CO IMPORTERS OF HARDWARE MONTREAL
its from the 1830's
Another version of an obverse design uses implements, and includes an anvil with hammer and tongs and a bench vice to the right (Figure 15). Struck on a copper flan it was a better weight than most, being 11% below standard and would have been accepted in Lower Canada. This issue was condemned by the newspaper “Le Populaire” as a “profiteering scam,” however specimens are often well worn and appear to have had long use. The reverse (Figure 16) names the issuers as T.S. Brown and Co a Montreal Importer of Hardwares (sic). Undated it is known that two kegs were sent from Birmingham and issued about 1832. Thomas Storrow Brown was born in 1803 and became a leader of young revolutionaries, mainly of French descent, during the 1837 Rebellion against the Establishment. He lost an eye in one encounter and after a further fight with British troops fled to Florida. He did not return home until the amnesty of 1844. He then had better fortune, re-established his firm and lived a long and prosperous life.
from.... Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
BROWN , THOMAS STORROW , hardware merchant, journalist, Patriote, and writer; b. in 1803 at St Andrews, N.B., son of Henry Barlow Brown, a merchant, and Rebecca Appleton; m. in 1829 Jane Hughes (d. 1833), and m. secondly in 1860 Hester Livingstone; d. 26 Dec. 1888 in Montreal, Que.