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Great Britain - 1811

1 Penny Token - Fletcher & Sharrat - 2nd

Obverse:

Bear seated left with ragged staff.

Legend:

PAYABLE BY FLETCHER & SHARRATT

Size:

33.6 mm.

Reverse:

WALSALL / TOKEN / ONE / PENNY / 1811 in 5 lines, all within a wreath of oak.

Vern's Comments:

Withers:
Fletcher and Sharratt

PENNY
1146 Penny, 1811.
1145: PAYABLE BY FLETCHER & SHARRATT bear seated left with ragged staff; the bear's ears are under the E in FLETCHER
Similar, but the bear's ears are under the H
℞ From the same die as 1145.
1145:WALSALL TOKEN ONE PENNY 1811 in 5 lines, all within a wreath of oak; the acorn below the date has a long stem, and an acorn touches the W in WALSALL
Davis 100
Edge : centre grained backslash D14.
34mm 18.7g Die axis ↑↑. N

In Holden's Directories of 1809-11 and 1816-17, Samuel Fletcher & Samuel Sharrat are listed at George Street, as merchants. In Underhill's Directory of 1816-17, they appear as 'saddlers iron-mongers, &c.', of Bridge Street. In 1799, Samuel Fletcher and Richard Wathew, Overseers of the Poor, had an extension built to the Workhouse adjoining the churchyard. In 1801, the Workhouse housed 210 persons. In 1812, Samuel Fletcher was again one of the four Overseers of the Poor for the year. Sharratt was mayor of Walsall from Michaelmas 1813 to 1814.
Fletcher and Sharratt also had an Irish connection. They are listed in Watson's Almanack and Dublin Directory for 1813 and 1816 (but not 1809), as being 'Wholesale Saddler's Ironmongers, 70 Abbey-street, Dublin'.
Sharp says that these dies were the work of Turnpenny.

1 Penny Token - Fletcher & Sharrat - 2nd