The Glovers' Arms

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued at the sign of the Glovers' Arms, in Whitecross Street.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3442; Obv inscription: AT.THE.GLOVERS.ARMES (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = Leather-sellers' arms (in field); Rev inscription: IN.WHIT.CROSS.STREET (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = I.I.D. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

The arms of the Worshipful company of Glovers are: On a field six pieces sable and argent three rams salient argent armed and unguled (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). The arms of the Worshipful company of Leathersellers are: Argent three roebucks passant regardant gules attired an unguled 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 number 7837 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. Whitecross Street lay in the ward of Cripplegate Without, in the City of London, and the Borough of Finsbury, Middlesex; the street is now part of Cripplegate Ward in the City of London, and the London Borough of Islington.