The Woodmongers' Arms

Gawain Gouldegay, a woodmonger, issued this trade token, worth a farthing, for his business in Whitefriars, in the ward of Farringdon Without, City of London.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3478; Obv inscription: GOVIN.GOVLDEGAY.WOOD (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = The Woodmongers' arms (in field); Rev inscription: MONGER.IN.WHIT.FRIRS (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = G.A.G. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

The arms of the Worshipful Company of Woodmongers are: A sword erect point upwards in pale proper Pomel and Hilt Gules between two Cart Wheels in fesse of the last (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, NN19612 and 96.66/1298, in the museum collection, and token number 7845 in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 59, The Norweb Collection: Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750, Part VII - City of London.