The Crossed Keys; ? The Dog and Duck

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued for a business in Stanhope Street, Clare Market neighbourhood, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 2945; Obv inscription: IN.STANVP.STREETE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = Two keys crossed I.A.K. (triad of initials in Roman capitals around sign, in field); Rev inscription: NEARE.NEW.MARKET (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A dog and duck (in field).

Stanhope Street, lay in the neighbourhood of Clare Market. Clare Market was named after John Holles, second Earl of Clare who established a small food market at Clement's Inn Fields in 1657, the market area spread over a wider area in time, with butchers' and grocers' shops covering many streets, J. H. Burn, A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-house Tokens current in the Seventeenth Century, presented to the Corporation Library by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, 2nd ed. (London, 1855), p. 69-70. The area lies in the City of Westminster, having formerly been part of Westminster, Middlesex.