Convict Love Token - Undated - Maria
Transcription
Back
Token precisely engraved with a stippled scalloped border and seven lines of text:
O TELL MY
DEAREST FRIENDS AT
HOME TO WEEP FOR ME
NO MORE FOR I LIVE IN
HOPES TO FIND A
FRIEND UPON SOME
FOREIGN SHORE
Front
Token precisely engraved with a stippled scalloped border and seven lines of text, with the bottom word, ‘love’, enclosed in a stippled chain border:
DEAREST MARIA
FAREWELL SINCE NOW
I MUST BID YOU ADIEU
IF PLEASE THE LORD I DO
RETURN DEAR MARIA
I’LL MARRY YOU
LOVE
Diameter
35.0 mm
Copyright: National Museum of Australia
