World Tokens, the Property of a North Country Collector

Jamaica, KINGSTON, Jamaica Fruit & Shipping Co. Ltd., (5), uniface, aluminium, 21mm, JAMAICA FRUIT & SHIPPING CO. LTD. around 1919; similar but with a six spoke counterstamp; similar but 1921; similar but with a six spoke counterstamp; similar but 1923; aluminium, 27mm, JAMAICA FRUIT & SHIPPING CO. LTD.* around KINGSTON, rev. 1928; similar but 1930 (Lyall 330 to 336; Roehrs 1192); Kingston Wharves Ltd., (9), uniface, aluminium, stamped K.W.L. between curved lines (2), round, 21mm; square 26mm (Lyall 337, 338; Roehrs 1192); stamped K.W.L. (7) different shapes (Lyall 339 to 345; cf. Roehrs 1192); Jamaica Banana Producers’ Association Ltd. (2), aluminium, 27mm, legend, rev. J.B.P.A. JAMAICA around 1932; similar but dated 1937 (Lyall 327, 328; Roehrs 1192); Jamaica Fertilizer Products Ltd (Falmouth), uniface, aluminium, 27mm, legend, rev. J.F.P.L./ 1 / FALMOUTH (Lyall 329) [19]. A couple fair, the rest fine to very fine £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, World Tokens, the Property of a North Country Collector.

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Jamaica Fruit & Shipping was formed in 1919 by Charlie Johnston, Captain S. D. List and Adolph Levy & Brothers, of Kingston. The company was formed to combat the threatened monopoly of the United Fruit Co. The company operated a weekly steamship service to New York from Kingston. Kingston Wharves Ltd. exported fresh grapefruit segments and cartons of orange concentrate to the U.K. The company started in 1945 and operated from Harbour Street, Kingston; they then moved to 3rd Street, New Port West, Kingston in about 1967. Jamaica Banana Producers’ Association was formed in 1929. The Association acted as a co-operative to give the growers a united body for their protection against the monopoly that the United Fruit Company sought to establish. The Jamaica Fertilizer Products Ltd was founded in 1929 and registered as a limited company on Market Street, Montego Bay in 1934. It was founded by Mr and Mrs James M. Whiteside who visited the Windsor Caves in Trelawney. Mr Whiteside was a chemical engineer and recognised the fertilizer potential of the bat manure which abounded in the caves (up to a depth of about 30 feet).