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Melbourne (Australia) Penny Token: George Petty of Smithfield & Co, Butchers 1855
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Melbourne (Australia) Penny Token: George Petty of Smithfield & Co, Butchers 1855

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Condition
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Location
South Africa
Product code
Kz304
Bob Shop ID
508249034

Melbourne (Australia) Penny Token: George Petty of Smithfield & Co, Butchers 1855

The beautiful token was minted by W.J. Taylor of London, circa 1855.

According to an internet source, Petty is said to have arrived as a boy in Melbourne, coming as a sailor on a ship that brought settlers to Port Phillip. The first trace of him in Melbourne is working in a butcher's shop on Elizabeth Street in 1853. By 1854 he was listed as the owner of a butchery in Elizabeth Street, possibly the one he had been working at. He ran butcher shop at various city locations over the next fifteen years and was known as one of the best butchers in Melbourne. He died on 19 November 1877, leaving a widow, two sons and three daughters.

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