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Actions	Brass token of Thomas Chambers Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberHC.J.13.X.15 TitleBrass token of Thomas Chambers DescriptionBrass token of Thomas Chambers. 1871-4. Such tokens were common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when there was a scarcity of legal currency in small denominations. They were often used as advertising. Parliament prohibited their production (27 July 1817) from 1 January 1818. The obverse of this example reads: Thomas Chambers / Dentist / 18 / Bark Street / Bolton / and the reverse: All branches / of Surgical and / Mechanical / Dentistry / Teeth Extracted / Without Pain / Wise Maker Birm[ingham] / 1871-74 It is believed that Chambers died in 1877 and he did not register under Section Eleven of the Dentists' Act (1878) Production periodNineteenth century, late Object nameToken Object categoryDental MaterialBrass Dimensions Length: 11 cm Width: 8 cm Depth: 3 cm

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TitleBrass token of Thomas Chambers

DescriptionBrass token of Thomas Chambers. 1871-4. Such tokens were common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when there was a scarcity of legal currency in small denominations. They were often used as advertising. Parliament prohibited their production (27 July 1817) from 1 January 1818. The obverse of this example reads: Thomas Chambers / Dentist / 18 / Bark Street / Bolton / and the reverse: All branches / of Surgical and / Mechanical / Dentistry / Teeth Extracted / Without Pain / Wise Maker Birm[ingham] / 1871-74 It is believed that Chambers died in 1877 and he did not register under Section Eleven of the Dentists' Act (1878)

Production periodNineteenth century, late

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