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Commerce, Co Durham, Bishop Wearmouth, B[isho]p Wearmouth Water Co, octagonal white metal, legend, rev. hand-pump fire-engine, 21mm, 3.56g/12h (Gardiner p.6; Noble II, 749). Very fine, scarce £30-50

Provenance: D.C. Pottinger Collection [from S.H. Monks March 2000).

Bishop Wearmouth Water Co, est. 1824, merged into the Sunderland Water Co in 1850. Inhabitants were supplied with water from the pumps at half-a-farthing per pail