This Skidmore’s Register Stove London (Middlesex) copper Conder halfpenny token, dated 1795 (Dalton & Hamer Middlesex No. 480; Atkins 361; 29.2 mm.) has superb eye appeal with superb color and surfaces.  There is some original red luster on the obverse, and a die flaw on the reverse within the word “CLERKENWELL” in the legend.  Obverse: Register stove within a circle, with legend on its four sides: “N^o 123 | HIGH| HOLBORN | LONDON” and legend around: “PAYABLE AT SKIDMORES FURNISHING REPOSITORY *”.  Reverse: Two men at a forge, with legend below: “1795”, and legend around: “MANUFACTORY ^. &^. IRON-FOUNDRY ^. CLERKENWELL *”.  Diagonally milled edge \\\\\\.  John Skidmore (1748-1823), with his sons Meremoth and Gamaliel, became very successful stove grate manufacturers in London.  They carried on an iron-foundry and held the appointment of stove grate maker to His Majesty's Board of Ordnance.  Another son, Paul Skidmore (b. 1775), was a token maker in Holborn.  Skidmore & Son, circa 1795 or 1796, produced numerous tokens, ultimately responsible for more than a quarter of all the token varieties produced in the late 18th century, including those issued by Matthew Denton, Thomas Prattent, and Thomas Spence.