The Bird in Hand

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued for a business at the Bird in Hand, in St John's Lane, in the parish of Clerkenwell, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 2551; Obv inscription: AT.THE.BIRD.IN.HAND (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A hand holding a bird (in field); Rev inscription: IN.S.IOHNS.LANE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = T.M.A. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

See also, NN18571 and A11403, in the museum collection, and token number 7984 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. St John's Lane, lay in Clerkenwell parish, in Finsbury, Middlesex; it now lies in the london Borough of Islington.