Lot 1287
Sale 133 · Important Australian, British, World, and Ancient Coins, Banknotes, and Medals
Images
Description
Convict Love Token, on a smooth copper blank (24.10 g), on one side "a gift to you/from me a friend/whose love for you/shall never end/Maria Knott/1818", other side, "when this you/see Rem me when/In a foreign country/Blake" underneath a heart with two arrows piercing it. Very fine.
Together with infomation pertaining to Joseph Blake, Convict, sentenced to death but reduced to deportation to Van Diemens Land in 1818.
- Estimate
- $1,000
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $1,100