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England - 1794

Campin Haberdasher

Obverse:

A bent stocking and a glove, and a knife and fork crossed.

Legend:

R X CAMPIN X HABERDASHER.

Exergue:

X GOAT X LANE X NORWICH.

Size:

28.9 mm.

Edge:

CURRENT EYERY WHERE

Reverse:

A female seated between an anchor and a globe, a crowned lion lying at her feet.

Legend:

HALFPENNY

Exergue:

1794

Vern's Comments:

BELL N^o 5 D&H 20

NORWICH Campin, R.
   Obverse :- A straight stocking on the left and a glove on the right, with a knife and fork below, the blade of the knife to the right.
Legend :- R + CAMPIN + HABERDASHER with + GOAT + LANE + NORWICH in the exergue.
   Reverse :- Britannia seated on a box with her right hand resting on a globe and her left elbow leaning on an anchor. She wears a breastplate charged with the Union Jack, and a crowned lion reclines at her feet.
Legend : - HALFPENNY. with 1794 in the exergue.
   Edge :- CURRENT EVERY WHERE remainder diamond-shaped ornaments.
Diesinker, unknown; manufacturers, Kempson and A. N. Other.
Common.

Comments. Robert Campin was a haberdasher in business in Goat Lane, Norwich. In the eighteenth century the most curious combinations of trades took place, and as knives and forks were becoming fashionable, having been introduced into England by refugees from the revolution in France, Campin may well have invested in a stock to sell as a sideline.
   The following year Campin issued another token with a different obverse; the stocking is ribbed and the upper part doubled back, and the knife and fork are crossed the other way. The reverse is dated 1794. [This is that version.]
Common.
   The diesinker of these tokens is unknown and Kempson only manufactured a small quantity, some other person striking most of them.

England — Norfolk

D & H 21 — Norwich

Bell Pg: 130-131

O: A bent stocking and a glove, and a knife and fork crossed in an opposite direction, the legend as before.

A. 22

R: Similar to last, but dated 1794.

E: CURRENT EYERY WHERE

Before:
O: straight stocking and a glove, and a knife and fork crossed . R X CAMPIN X HABERDASHER. Ex : X GOAT X LANE X NORWICH.
R: A female seated between an anchor and a globe, a crowned lion lying at her feet. HALFPENNY. Ex : 1793.
E: CURRENT EYERY WHERE.

Campin Haberdasher