Unknown Token from Bishop Auckland

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tony_k_1965
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Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 20:35 #
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Can anyone help id this token please and if possible around what date it may be. Thanks in advance.

ZacUK Numista team
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Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 20:48 #
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  I found this ...
http://www.art.co.uk/products/p21692206675-sa-i7392406/english-school-play-up-town-club-arthur-speak-the-people-s-hatter-54-market-place-by-aukland.htm?sOrig=CAT&sOrigID=0&dimVals=0&ui=31CC2CBEA61C4F8F9639CF7E56768614&searchstring=arthur+speak&SSK=arthur+speak&sby=all
Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
tony_k_1965
Joined: 8 Nov 2011
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Posted: 14 Jun 2014, 00:52 #
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no other thoughts ?
bam777
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Posted: 14 Jun 2014, 05:15 #
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I'm going for very late 1800s. Hatter's token.
fourmack
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Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 03:32 #
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Have you checked here
http://www.rarecoinsandtokens.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=84
as all I can find is not much about it
https://www.google.co.nz/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Thomas+Sayer+the+Hatter&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&gfe_rd=cr&ei=MPScU6nPCOXC8gf-h4CgCQ#q=Thomas+Sayer+the+Hatter+token&rls=en
Cheers Don
BizzoDoes
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Posted: 17 Jun 2014, 18:48 #
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After a great deal of searching found a scan of a newspaper, The Teesdale Mercury August 11, 1880:

                         ARTHUR SPEAK,
               AUCTIONEER AND APPRAISER ,
                      BISHOP AUCKLAND.
SALES undertaken at any distance; no additional
                           expense.

(Second column, about half way down under the George Moore advert)
Possibly the same Arthur Speak?
http://46.32.255.219/pdf/1880/August-11/August-11-1880-08.pdf

Or this one, October 16 1879, second column, second from top.
http://46.32.255.219/pdf/1879/October-15/October-15-1879-04.pdf
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I'm not an expert in any kind of coins, but I reckon I'm good at research and will do my best to help. Feel free to tell me my identifications/valuations/gradings are wrong. It's the only way I'll learn.
BizzoDoes
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Posted: 17 Jun 2014, 18:54 #
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Or how about this? A silk top hat for sale from the 1920's, made by the man himself!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=291167405727
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I'm not an expert in any kind of coins, but I reckon I'm good at research and will do my best to help. Feel free to tell me my identifications/valuations/gradings are wrong. It's the only way I'll learn.
tony_k_1965
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Posted: 17 Jun 2014, 19:28 #
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Thanks all for your info and links, I will leave this open for now as this could be a very rare token.
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