World Tokens

Trinidad, Guayaguayare, Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd, uniface oval brass [by Neal], c. 1915, t.l. ltd guayaguayare, S-shaped copper insert, 36 x 25mm, 7.46g (Lyall 510, this piece illustrated; Prid. –; Ford –; Tankersley –; Byrne –). About extremely fine, unissued but very rare £60-80

Provenance: R.N.P. Hawkins Collection, Glendining Auction, 16 March 1988, lot 448 (part) [from C. Neal & Sons (Finchley), 1972].

An unissued employee identity disc that never went to Trinidad; those that were sent to the island and issued there have numbers stamped on them. Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd, established in 1913 to prospect for oil, taken over by Texaco in 1956