C4 Newsletter - Mayhugh's RI Ship Token Publique Deposited
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From: "colonial_john_c4" <johnmenc@optonline.net>
Subject: C4 Newsletter - Mayhugh's RI Ship Token
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Marc - Off the top of my head I would call this specimen a real legitimate =
RI specimen. Hodder reminded me although Boulton had his hands on the high =
zinc brass processing technology that would explain the composition of the =
normal high zinc brass specimens as his signature there was never nothing t=
o link him to these pieces that I could extract from the Birmingham Central=
Library (BCL) which houses his papers. My research unfortunately was alway=
s having to go through a neophyte archivist at the BCL in a back and forth =
fashion with snail mails. Richard Doty & Hodder both believe the pieces wer=
e simply to crude for his hand and the records of Boulton producing tokens,=
medals and coins unfortunately does not start until a decade later than 17=
79 or so ... this piece seems to fit this CRUDE idealogy and possibly being=
a poor alloy mix of both brass & pewter. One is always tempted because of =
the high zinc content in these pieces for it to be of a Boulton process but=
he may have been a supplier of this alloy to say a less equiped minting op=
eration. On the other hand in reviewing his minting work this may be an unr=
ecorded token or medal of his first work? THis has never been proven or unp=
roven. This is a GREAT piece in my opinion - and the word ELECTRO does not =
seem to fit into this equation at all in my opinion. Does this piece bring =
us closer to the actual maker - probably not - but it does emphasize the ov=
erall crude manufacturing behind these mysterious pieces whether in brass, =
pewter or this newly dicovered poor alloy mix specimen.=20=20 - 2009-08-27
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