The Fishmongers' Arms

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued for a business at the sign of the Fishermongers' Arms, on Wapping Wall, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3274; Obv inscription: AT.THE.FISHMONGERS (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = The Fishmongers' arms (in field); Rev inscription: ARMES.ON.WAPING.WALL (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = I.D.B. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

The arms of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers are: Azure three dolphins naiant embowed in pale argent, finned, toothed and crowned or, between two pairs of stockfishes in saltire argent, over the mouth of each fish a crown; on a chief gules three pairs of keys of St. Peter in saltire (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). Wapping Wall runs north-east of Garnet Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, it was previously part of Stepney, Middlesex.