Victoria (1837-1901). Boundary Token, County Durham, Gateshead, obverse; * BOROUGH OF GATESHEAD * BOUNDARY TOKEN, borough arms within beaded inner circle, reverse; PERAMBULATION 24TH MAY 1849 on a border around GEOE HAWKS ESQR / MAYOR, / WILLIAM HENRY BROCKETT / JAMES SMITH / WILLIAM KENMIR / THOMAS WILSON / JOHN CUTHBERT POTTS / THOMAS CUMMINS / ALDERMEN, / WILLIAM KELL TOWN CLERK, within beaded inner circle, 32mm, 11.33g, silver, D&W-23, cf. W-2697 and M-5316m VF, two tiny digs.
References; W.J. Davis & A.W. Waters, Tickets & Passes of Great Britain & Ireland
, 1922 (reprinted 1974), P, & B.R. Withers, The Token Book 3; Tickets & Passes and their values
, 2016, and Michael Mitchiner, Jetons, Medalets & Tokens, volume 3; British Isles circa 1558 to 1830
, 1998.
