You are bidding on book by Christopher Faulkner:
Canada's Ships, Colonies & Commerce Tokens
Spink & Son Ltd, London, 2019. Hardcover, 435 pages, well illustrated, dust jacket.
Chapter
One explains the historical meaning behind the presence of the ship on
the obverse and the familiar legend on the reverse which gives the
series its name. The ship symbolized the primary means of transportation
which tied the British North American colonies both to one another and
to their mother country. Throughout the nineteenth century, the words
“ships, colonies and commerce” had a wide popular appeal and an almost
magical authority. As they passed from hand to hand, the tokens not only
circulated a store of value (nominally a halfpenny), they also helped
to circulate an idea of empire and the primary means by which that idea
was secured. The book’s first chapter also offers an account of where
and by whom the varieties in the series were struck, and when and where
the token circulated in the course of its forty-year life. Earlier
efforts at cataloguing the series are explained and there is a detailed
record of 12 major collections of the past.
Chapter Two is a
fully illustrated catalogue of all known varieties and die states of
Breton 997, one of the most difficult and challenging series in Canadian
numismatics. For ease of identification the series has been broken down
into Groups and sub-groups. Within each Group, every variety and die
state receives its own catalogue entry. A number of previously unknown
varieties are listed. Every entry includes a commentary which explains
the characteristics of the variety and its die states. A sales record,
where one exists, accompanies each entry.
Chapter Three deals
at length with three extremely rare and controversial Ships, Colonies
& Commerce tokens, Breton 999, 1000, and 1001. Every known example
of each of these tokens is illustrated and pedigreed. Biographies of
W.A.D. Lees and L.A. Langstroth, two of the foundational collectors and
cataloguers of the series constitute Chapter Four. Finally, an Appendix
deals with various errors in the series and what they can tell us about
the circumstances under which the tokens were struck. This book offers
the kind of presentation and analysis that have never been undertaken
previously with any individual series of pre-Confederation Canadian
tokens.
Christopher Faulkner is the author of two previous
books from Spink, the award winning The Holey Dollars and Dumps of
Prince Edward Island (2012) and Coins Are Like Songs: The Upper Canada
Coppers, 1815-1841 (2016).
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