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Description: | A complete copper alloy token of late post-medieval date. The necklace was issues in the late 18th century by Basil Burchell an alternative medicine doctor of Middlesex. Burchell's most famous remedies were his sugar plums worm medicine, for getting rid of worms, and the anodyne necklace, to sooth teething babies. This token was issued as an advertising method naming the sugar plumbs on one side and the anodyne necklace on the other. Such tokens were usually perforated and worn as a necklace, but some did circulate as halfpennies. This example has been perforated.Obverse: BASIL BURCHELL (around top edge) SOLE PROPRIETOR OF THE FAMOUS SUGAR-PLUMBS FOR WORMS N. 79 (in seven lines in the centre) LONG-ACRE (around bottom edge).Reverse: BASIL BURCHELL (around top edge) SOLE PROPRIETOR OF THE ANODYNE NECKLACE FOR CHILDREN (in seven lines in the centre) CUTTING TEETH (around bottom edge).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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