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England - 1795

Bathing machines & Fishing

Obverse:

Bathing machines in the water, and ships at sea.

Legend:

LOWESTOFT TOKEN .

Exergue:

SEA BATH
1795 with RP within a circle.

Size:

29.5 mm.

Edge:

Milled

Reverse:

Men in a boat fishing, and ships at a distance.

Legend:

SUCCESS TO THE

Exergue:

FISHERIES

Vern's Comments:

The two authorities reverse the sides in their descriptions.

BELL N^o 16 D&H 37

LOWESTOFT Peach, R.
   Obverse :- A Sherringham beach boat in the foreground, and in the distance a herring smack and a three-masted lugger. Legend :- SUCCESS TO THE FISHERIES
   Reverse :- A beach with three vessels in the distance and two bathing-machines, one in the water, in the foreground. Legend :- LOWESTOFT TOKEN SEA BATH 1795 with RP within a circle.
   Edge :- Diagonally milled.
Diesinker, Davies; manufacturer, Good. This is one of the prettiest tokens of the series. Common.

Comments. Robert Peach was a fish merchant in Lowestoft, and his family had been in the trade for many years as owners of some of the vessels in the large herring and mackerel fishing fleet of this port.
   The obverse refers to the herring fishery, and the reverse to the town's amenities as a holiday resort on the North Sea.

England — Suffolk

D & H 37 — Lowestoft

Bell Pg: 177

O: Bathing machines in the water, and ships at sea. LOWESTOFT TOKEN. SEA BATH (RP) 1795.

A. 35

R: Men in a boat fishing, and ships at a distance. SUCCESS TO THE FISHERIES.

E: Milled

Bathing machines & Fishing