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Canadian Countermark

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Canada Start Price:125.00 CAD Estimated At:250.00 - 300.00 CAD
Canadian Countermark
SOLD
145.00CAD+ (29.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2016 Jul 20 @ 23:00UTC-4 : AST/EDT


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Canadian Countermark - DAVID WILSON / ORNAMENTAL / AND / GENERAL / ENGRAVER / 31 KING ST. EAST / TORONTO all within ornamental border, engraved on smoothed rev. of Great Britain Victoria ½ penny (M.I. 1009).

This is no doubt the personal piece of the engraver who was in business from 1871 till 1900, according to A dictionary of Toronto printers, publishers, booksellers and the allied trades 1798-1900 by Elizabeth Hulse, Toronto, 1982. The coin must have been engraved after 1880 when his address became 31 King East. According to Early painters and engravers in Canada by J. Russell Harper, Toronto, 1972, he was in partnership with William White in Toronto in 1884. According to the Federal Census of 1871, Wilson was born in Scotland in 1845. (Marked Impressions).

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