England, LANCASHIRE, Cark-in-Cartmel, a Mexico, Charles III, 8 Réales, 1785fm, Mexico City, obv. countermarked cark cotton works 1787, rev. countermarked four shillings and six pence, 26.79g/12h (Manville 101, and p.202, this coin listed). Coin about very fine and toned, countermarks better £1,500-2,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Countermarked Dollars, Property of the late Lt.-Cdr W. E. McLaughlin.

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Provenance: Glendining Auction, 13 April 1988, lot 188.

Thackery, Stockdale & Co, a partnership between James Stockdale (1724-1806), an entrepreneur who lived at Cark House, Joseph Thackery and Joseph Ryder, Manchester cotton merchants, Thomas Satterthwaite, a West Indian merchant from Lancaster, and Edward Hardy (†1796), an engineer from Mossley, operated the Cark cotton mill, which began production in 1785. For much further background information see Hodge, SNC April 2001, pp.93-5