British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Mining, Lancashire, Manchester, Moston Colliery, a gold award badge, TS DS in two lines on central shield within quadrilobe, back named (Presented to George Kirk by the Moston Miners), hallmarked Birmingham 1924, 48 x 32mm, 9ct, 15.22g. Very fine; with loop for suspension £100-150

Moston colliery, once part of the Oldham coalfield, was owned by the Platt family for many years before the NCB took it over in 1947 and closed it in 1950