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What tokens are tucked away in your drawer or chest.
Love letters? Photographs? Pressed flowers? Or is it a secret? Just old memories...
Thank you for looking. xxxx
The crew of 'Covertcoat' take the token for the return to Launceston. Newmills, Launceston Steam Railway, 12th October 2018.
If any of you here grew up in Montreal, Quebec, you may remember these bridge tokens. The one on the left was used for the Champlain and Jacques Cartier Bridges. The one on the left was for the Champlain Bridge only. Not sure when they removed the tolls, but I have about a half dozen tokens left over from our commutes into the city from the south shore.
A special for the Railway children charity, organised by a combination of East Midland Trains, The 125 Group and the Branch Line Society running around the north of England and visiting the NYMR as a part
It has been an interesting couple of months in South Wales with much to be seen in connection with the 'Britannic Explorer', Belmond's luxury tours around England and Wales. Today (9 July 2025) was my fourth photographic foray in connection with these preparations. (See 'Emerging From The Forest', 'Token Exchange' and 'Right Time, Right Place' in my Photo-stream.).
The working I wanted to capture was 0Z95, the 09.46 Llandeilo Junction to Worcester TC, another route learning exercise, and this used a Britannic Explorer' liveried 66748 'St Michael's Mount', it is seen just departing from Llandeilo station having exchanged tokens. I am not too overkeen about the pale blue/grey livery, but it will be kept in pristine condition I am sure. Let me have your thoughts in the 'Comments'.
"Look to this day, for it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the realities and verities of existence.
The bliss of growth, the splendor of action, the glory of power.
And yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision.
But today - well lived - makes every yesterday
a dream of happiness,
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day."
This quarter sized jeton may have been issued in Corsica from 1736-38. The legend reads THEODORVS on the revese side. On this side though the legend reads PRIN-LEO-DVX (duke). Below is a bit of history of King Theodore of Corsica.
Neuhof, Theodor, Baron von (tā'ōdôr' bärōn' fən noi'hōf) , 1694–1756, German adventurer, b. Metz, France. After a career as a soldier and diplomat, he was persuaded by Corsicans rebelling against Genoese rule to become (1736) their king as Theodore I of Corsica. Driven from Corsica by the Genoese with French aid in 1738, he tried (1738, 1743) unsuccessfully to regain his throne. After 1749 he lived in poverty in England and was once released from debtors' prison through the influence of Horace Walpole. He figures grotesquely in Voltaire's Candide.
40122 crawls up to a token exchange at Dinnington on the SYJR with a Worksop-bound railtour whose headboard I cannot read - 1985 or 86. See Railrover's note below (thanks!).
The other side of the Buxton coppy halfpenny token. This side shows the Cavendish coat of arms. The Crescent in Buxton was built by the 5th Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish.
DERSB 2012.6
Cud @ K 8-9:30 and cud @ K 8-10 - cud progression 1+2. Die crack @ K 7:30 at second token.
These tokens were issued in the early 1970's and used until 2002 they are not marked by year (1934 is the year commission was established not the year tokens were produced).
The Commission decided to end the redemption program as of July 1, 2005.
One of a series of medals issued by Peter Kempson in 1797. It shows the New Meeting House in Moor Street which was destroyed in the riots of 1791.
Accession number: 1939 N164
ZAO
ISLAND
THE WRIGHT WAY TO PLAY
NO
CASH
VALUE
Date: Circa 2005
Source Type: Token
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Unknown
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This token appears in tokencatalog.com, the premier source for token information.
Copyright 2014. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.
I've been hoping to get a shot of this behavior - male Great Egret presenting nesting material to female.