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Quorndon shop token
This is thrupeny token (approximately 1.5p) for 'General Supply Stores, Quorn'. It dates from after 1862, as the maker H M Sale of Birmingham started business in that year.
It was issued by Norths who operated Quorn General Store on Quorn Cross (now 3 High Street. It is could be that the tokens were a form of prepayment, although they could have been part of a variation on the outlawed 'truck system' of paying wages. There is evidence that prior to Thomas North taking over the shop from his father-in-law, Thomas Trueman, tokens or 'billets' had been used by Balm's lace factory in Quorn, to pay wages, which were then redeemable at this store.
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Submitted on: |
2010-07-19 |
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Submitted by: |
Bob Smith, with research by Sue Templeman |
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Artefact ID: |
895 |
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Artefact URL: |
www.quornmuseum.com/display.php?id=895 |
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