🍁 Rare Token - Thorbecke's (Smoking Bear) United Kingdom - Australia - Oct 1880

Description

Looking to Buy One More Royal Doulton Kingsware Whiskey Jug.
🍁 This Sale is For The One Token in The Title And in The Photo Gallery, This is The Exact Coin You Will Receive.
🍁  Rare Token - Thorbecke's (Smoking Bear) United Kingdom Australia - Oct 1880
Features
Country
United Kingdom
(United Kingdom)
Type
Promotional items › Advertising token
Year
1880
Currency
Advertising Tokens
Composition
Brass
Weight
7.65 g
Size
30.5 mm
Thickness
1 mm
Shape
Round
Orientation
Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N
# 80453
Obverse
Bear in centre, facing with paws folded, smoking pipe, lettering either side on ribbon. Lettering above and below
Lettering:
SMOKE THORBECKE'S
MONOPOLY
TRADE MARK
CIGARETTES
MACHINE MADE
Reverse
Inner circle containing scroll at top, 12-line inscription interspersed with numbers and a bracket, lowest line curved. Lettering around outside
Lettering:
"REALLY GOOD AND CHEAPER THAN OTHERS" TOB. TRADE REV. 9 OCTOBER 80 *
MAKING BY MACHINE ENABLES US TO OFFER
10 EXQUISITE VIRGINIA OR TURKISH } FOR 4D.
20 DO. . . . . . FOR 8D.
BEST RICE PAPER NEATER & CHEAPER THAN HAND MADE
PRIZE AT MELBOURNE EXHIBITION
Translation:
TOB. TRADE REV. = Tobacco Trade Review award: 9/10/1880
Edge
Plain
Comments
Thorbecke's brass advertising token undated.
Seen at times in Australia and is listed in a Queensland catalogue along with another three reverse types.
'The Times, London, Monday February 9 1880; Smoke Thorbecke's machine made 'Monopoly' cigarettes. London, 1881.' 'National Library of New Zealand - as paper ephemera, and there was a German company A H Thorbecke Co Mannheim also tobacco manufacturers. It appears that this token was issued by a London company, but mostly turn up in the Antipodes.'
The cigarettes were made in Great Britain but available in the colonies. Although London made, these cigarettes seem to have been sold to the Colonial & Empire market.
Perversely the bear is smoking a pipe rather than a cigarette, so it's obviously a very independently-minded bear. The token is about the size of a contemporary British penny, 30.5mm in diameter.
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