This part of the site aims to provide background information to the token and check makers whose signatures appear on various of the tokens identified in this site’s on-line gallery.

For more information about the following known makers select from the page links below;

1) Van Der Velde of Newcastle-on-Tyne

2) Pryor of Sheffield

3) Sale of Birmingham

4)  John C. Parkes of Dublin

5) Pinches of London

6) Ardill of Leeds

7) Vaughtons of Birmingham

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