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Canadian Countermark

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Canada Start Price:175.00 CAD Estimated At:350.00 - 400.00 CAD
Canadian Countermark
SOLD
175.00CAD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2016 Jul 20 @ 22:52UTC-4 : AST/EDT


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Canadian Countermark - J.J. VELDON / QUEBEC on worn or blank copper (M.I. 942, Brunk V-71).

John J. Veldon, the marker of this coin, was a pharmacist in Quebec City. He was the son of James Veldon, also a pharmacist, who was born in Ireland in 1821 according to the Federal Census of 1881. The census of 1851, however, assigned the senior Veldon’s birthdate as being 1818. This would make more sense for, as Rulau states, based on information from Byron Johnson, James was married on June 13, 1837. John J. Veldon himself was born in Quebec in 1845. According to the Quebec Mercury of October 11, 1864, reporting on the meeting of the College of Physicians and Surgeons for Lower Canada, John J. Veldon was admitted to practice as a chemist, druggist and apothecary on that day. He is listed in directories in St. Roch, a borough of Quebec, from 1868 to 1897 on St. Joseph Street. John J. Veldon was well acquainted with the products of Devins & Bolton as evidenced by an ad prepared for the Montreal firm’s celebrated worm pastilles which appeared in the Courrier du Canada. Herein J.J. Veldon’s was one of the establishments endorsing the product. In another late 19th century prospectus for one of the quack companies called “Quickcure”, a toothache remedy, J.J. Veldon is one of several Quebec druggists giving an affirmative testimonial to the product: My customers always come again for ?uickcure’, as nothing else stops pain so quickly. (Marked Impressions).

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