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Title: Info/id please Post by: d thomas on September 26, 2016, 06:18:58 AM Im guessing that the cartwheel is a gaming piece maybe and the other item is a token but i dont really know. Any info/id would be great.
Title: Re: Info/id please Post by: Val Beechey on September 26, 2016, 06:55:57 AM Have you done a Google search for info on the first one. It looks quite modern and most prob. Is a makers badge.
Can't make out much on the second one. Could have been a works token. Title: Re: Info/id please Post by: d thomas on September 26, 2016, 10:01:05 AM The first one has got a figure one on the other side. Just found out that p.w.taylor of birchend ledbury was a premium beef cattle breeder from around 1880.
Title: Re: Info/id please Post by: Val Beechey on September 26, 2016, 03:03:08 PM I remember many years ago (when I was in the meat trade) we bought half a prize Scottish Bullock. It arrived with a brass rosette attached to the rump. It had the breeders name on it. Wonder if what you found is similar.
Title: Re: Info/id please Post by: d thomas on September 26, 2016, 03:08:59 PM Maybe
Title: Re: Info/id please Post by: roughneck on September 26, 2016, 09:45:47 PM The Birchend token is as you say. I have one the same. I actually went to the farm to offer it to the owner. The farm dwellings/outbuildings are now all residences and the land is owned by a farmer who lives many miles away. Nice finds by the way. Cheers. Tom.
Title: Re: Info/id please Post by: d thomas on September 27, 2016, 06:15:07 AM Nice one tom. Many thanks
Title: Re: Info/id please Post by: roughneck on September 27, 2016, 11:20:46 AM Hi D.
My Birchend token has a 5 on the reverse. I'm guessing they were tokens to spend in the farm shop as the area was a significant hop picking one. My family spent the harvest picking hops and fruit in the area many years ago. Nice find. Did you find yours on the rally held in the area last week? Cheers Tom Title: Re: Info/id please Post by: d thomas on September 28, 2016, 07:01:36 AM Yeahh. Just in front of the cottage in the first field
Title: Re: Info/id please Post by: benny on October 10, 2016, 08:18:50 PM Yeah it's a hop token. Birchend, Castle Frome. Spent a lot of time on that farm when I was a kid while my mum did the hop tying. She was born in one of the cottages on the farm as her dad was a farm labourer there.
Title: Re: Info/id please Post by: d thomas on October 11, 2016, 10:29:22 AM Ahh. Cheers benny
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