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Counterstamp (elephant?) on George III crown.....any help??
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picked this up recently and just wondered if anyone can identify the countermark.....resembles an elephant and might be of India origin
thanks for any info
greg
thanks for any info
greg
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The book lists the elephant countermark as a possible unofficial use of a brand-marking punch or a hotel or pub check. The book does reference a known countermarker - Thomas Bartleet of Birmingham, and latter, London. Thomas was a buttonmaker and general hardware maker from 1800+ and from London from 1830. Listings in directories for Bartleet's company disappeared by 1900.
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But......I can tell you its very
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a slight cropping of your 1793 Yorkshire HalfPenny has me more convinced than ever that this is an elephant
notice the resemblance?
i believe i read somewhere that certain cultures believe an elephant's trunk in an upward position means good luck
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As the design, that is, not a counterstamp. Still, I can't help but wonder if the elephant could be associated with Ceylon (Sri Lanka) somehow?
India's the strongest theory and a practically foregone conclusion , but of course Ceylon ain't far off the coast of India.
(Eh, now that I've made a "foregone conclusion", watch it turn out to be from homeland England.)