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Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, WITHDRAWN







Transportation: a George III Penny, 1797, both sides planed smooth and engraved, man standing outside a building with steps leading to the entrance, holding a tankard in his left hand, john woodfield aged 19 feby 11 1831, rev. o tell my dearest friends at home to weep for me no more for i live in hopes to find a friend upon some foreign shore in 7 lines, 35mm. About very fine, competent style £150-£200

Provenance: R. Lyall Collection.

John Woodfield (b Lichfield, Staffordshire, 1790) was convicted of stealing two coats and a hat from 48 Tavistock square, London, on 3 November 1830. He was tried at the Old Bailey on 9 December 1830 and sentenced to death, which was transmuted to transportation for 21 years after appeal on 5 March 1831. He sailed on the William Glen Anderson on 31 May 1831, arriving in Van Diemen’s Land on 1 November. Another token made for or by Woodfield was in the Millett collection, now in the National Museum Australia, Canberra

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