The Carpenters' Arms

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued at the sign of the Carpenters' arms, in Marlow's Rents, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 1879; Obv inscription: THE.CARPENTERS.ARMS (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = The Carpenters' arms (in field); Rev inscription: IN.MARLOES.RENTS (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A.B (in field, in Roman capitals).

The arms of the Worshipful company of Carpenters are: Argent a chevron engrailed between three pairs of compasses sable (J. Bromley, The Armorial Bearings of the Guilds of London: a record of the heraldry of the surviving companies with historical notes; with...[illustrations] by Heather Child...(London, 1960). See also token numbers 8300 and 8301 in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 62, The Norweb Collection: Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750, Part VIII - Middlesex and Uncertain Pieces. Marlow's Rents, were off St Katherine Court, in the area now covered by St Katherine's Docks; they lay in Stepney, Middlesex, the area is now part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.