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Sharples Token
Ref: INV: 16851
Obverse [head]: Decorative pattern at the top and bottom, two four leaf clovers either side of inscription in the centre: T. SHARPLES CONCERT ROOM AND MUSEUM STAR INN CHURCHGATE BOLTON.
Reverse [tails]: Star with seven points inside a wreath.
Biography
This token is from an exciting Victorian Bolton attraction, the Sharples Concert Rooms and Museum, which were located above the Star Inn on Churchgate.
Unfortunately, it is not known how this token entered the museum. The token was found during an inventory of the token collection. However, there are several other tokens like this one in the collection. This is because the Sharples Concert Room and Museum are seen as an important part of the social history of Bolton.
Some interesting facts
The full name of the museum part of the Sharples rooms was ‘Sharples Museum of Curiosities in Nature & Art’, and you can see an original guide to the museum on display when our new Local History Gallery opens in the autumn.
In the guide book to the museum, strange curiosities described include a duck with two heads!
Find out more
There is currently another Sharples token on display in our very own ‘cabinet of curiosity’ located on the ground floor of Bolton Central library to the rear of the library.
For more information about the concert rooms and musical entertainment at Sharples, see
Dagmar Kift, The Victorian Music Hall: Culture, Class and Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 1996) in Part One ‘The English Music Hall’.
An odd little token I found in the grass outside of work. A Google search has found it's just an arcade token - not nearly as exciting as originally thought it could be given where it was found.
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
from one of those make-it-yourself machines that used to be everywhere. When I was a kid in the early 60's we would go to the bus station and make them with obscenities on them, thinking we were getting away with something. Come to think of it, if I could find one now, I would probably still do the same thing - - some people never grow up
The tokens really are a bargain -- 50 (40 plus "10 free") cost $10 -- we had a coupon to give us 40 + 30 "free" for $10. Each game then takes one token and spits out tickets which can be traded in for dollar-store junk. Still, it made kiddo plenty happy.
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A 1980 telephone token issued by Pakistan Telegraph and Telephone (T&T). Part of my Privet Collection .
Today’s erection at Thuxton. A driver delivers the token pouch onto this catcher before picking up the one for the section ahead.
18/06/2017 (Sun) 1334 Hammerton (between Harrogate & York) 155347 + 153351 2C39 1320 York - Leeds via Harrogate (signaller collecting single line token)
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Soft sunset as evening falls in Tok, Alaska.
250 exposures, taken 5 seconds apart, combined at one second intervals for this time-lapsed sunset video.
One of a series of medals issued by Peter Kempson in 1797. It shows St Mary’s Chapel in Weaman Street which was built in 1774.
Accession number: 1939 N171
Per Larry Moran this token was struck in 1797. It commemorated a mail delivery service which was started by J. Palmer and traveled from Liverpool to London and back. Note the die cracks on the obverse of this coin.
50008 Thunderers driver is about to surrender the token from Arley at Highley during the SVRs 50 years of the Class 50 gala.
Bank of Upper Canada 1857 one penny token issued before Canada became a nation. In 1857 Canada was still a province of the British Empire.
One of a series of medals issued by Peter Kempson in 1797. It shows the New Meeting House after it had been re-built following the riots of 1791.
Accession number: 1939 N161
I think the name Hoyle on this token refers to Edmond Hoyle (1672- 1769) who was a writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games. The phrase "According to Hoyle" came into the language as a reflection of his generally percieved authority on the subject.