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Create new listThackery, Stockdale & Co, a partnership between James Stockdale (1724-1806), an entrepreneur who lived at Cark House, Joseph Thackery and Joseph Ryder, Manchester cotton merchants, Thomas Satterthwaite, a West Indian merchant from Lancaster, and Edward Hardy (†1796), an engineer from Mossley, operated the Cark cotton mill. One of James Watt’s first steam-engines was installed at Cark in 1786, which was in full production by 1787.
England, Cark-in-CartmEL (Lancashire), Cark Cotton Works, a MEXICO, Charles III, 8 Reales, 1777fm, Mexico City, obv. countermarked cark cotton works 1787, rev. countermarked four shillings and six pence, 26.84g/12h (Manville 101; Hodge 101aE.004b, this coin; Hodge SNC April 2001, pp.93-5). Coin and countermarks better than very fine £2,000-£2,600
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