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Canadian Countermark

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Canada Start Price:100.00 CAD Estimated At:200.00 - 250.00 CAD
Canadian Countermark
SOLD
120.00CAD+ (24.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2016 Jul 20 @ 22:37UTC-4 : AST/EDT


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Canadian Countermark - A.J. STEVENS. / ENGRAVER ON / METAL. / 1882. / NORWICH ONT. with various elaborate decorations within and around legend all neatly counterpunched on obv. of Quebec Bank penny, 1852, Br 528 (M.I. 858, Brunk S-930).

This is an example of a merchant advertising a trade which appears to be a secondary one. The County of Oxford gazetteer and directory for 1862-3, compiled and published by James Sutherland, Lovell’s Canadian Dominion directory for 1871, published by John Lovell, and Fisher & Taylor’s gazetteer and general directory of the County of Oxford, 1874-5, published by Fisher and Taylor, list Alfred J. Stevens in Norwich as a cabinet maker. The latter directory gives his address as being on Stover Street. The Ontario gazetteer and directory for 1901/02 lists him as proprietor of a general store in Salford. He was born on June 9, 1840, according to the Federal Census of 1901, at which time he was located in Norfolk County. (Marked Impressions).

Note: this lot is part of The Richard Cooper Collection.