Auction Catalogue
Jamaica, Banana and Fruit Trade Work Tallies, Fruit Importing Co, uniface brass, stamped f.i.co., 24mm, 2.93g (Lyall 312; Ford 644, this piece; Tankersley –). Central piercing by the Standard Fruit Co, good fine, very rare £80-100
Provenance: R.J. Ford Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 79, 15 October 1990, lot 644.
Fruit Importing Co, a short-lived business founded by David Gideon in 1904, merged with the Atlantic Fruit Co
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