Convict Love Token - 1829 - M Ann
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Token engraved with a stippled zigzag border and the central image of a woman holding the hands of a small girl (at left) and a small boy (at right). They are all wearing hats and dresses; the woman’s hat is decorated with flowers and ribbons and her dress has a decorative lacy border. Above the figures are their names in stippled cursive text:
M Ann Ann Joseph
Underneath the figures is engraved in stippled cursive text:
Hickman June 12
1829
Front
Token engraved with a stippled scalloped border and 10 lines of stippled cursive text:
Dear wife
When this you
see Remember
me and bear
me in your
mind let all the
world say what
thay will dont
prove to me
Unkind
Diameter
36.0 mm
Copyright: National Museum of Australia
