I found this very worn token yesterday and with the help of a FB group friend he gave me an ID for it.
Please note there is a controversial word within the ID of the token but I have cleared that word with a moderator to try and not cause offence.
Obverse
"**The fable of the bundle of sticks; four robed figures surrounding a bundle of sticks
Lettering: LONDON CORRESPONDING SOCIETY
Reverse
A flying dove to left with an olive branch in its beak
Lettering:
UNITED FOR A REFORM OF PARLIAMENT
1795?"
The Fables of Æsop (Jacobs)/The Bundle of Sticks.
**"An old man on the point of death summoned his sons around him to give them some parting advice. He ordered his servants to bring in a faggots of sticks, and said to his eldest son: "Break it." The son strained and strained, but with all his efforts was unable to break the Bundle. The other sons also tried, but none of them was successful. "Untie the faggots, said the father," and each of you take a stick." When they had done so, he called out to them: "Now, break," and each stick was easily broken. "You see my meaning," said their father." .....Union gives strength.
"The London Corresponding Society was founded in 1792 in order to spread revolutionary doctrines, similar to those propagated in France following the Revolution, by pursuing political reform through education.
It stressed the necessity of government by the people and highlighted the corrupt method of selection for Parliament, whilst advocating peace with France. It's greatest success was when 150,000 people attended one of their meetings in Copenhagen Fields, London in 1795.
The Society corresponded with other like-minded groups at home and abroad. The Corresponding Act of 1798 crushed all such radical societies."
The worn token.
Example. Bundle of sticks down by their feet.
"In the meaning of bundle alternate spellings in Early Modern English include fagate, faget, fagett, faggott, fagot, fagatt, fagott, ffagott, and faggat."
Please note there is a controversial word within the ID of the token but I have cleared that word with a moderator to try and not cause offence.
Obverse
"**The fable of the bundle of sticks; four robed figures surrounding a bundle of sticks
Lettering: LONDON CORRESPONDING SOCIETY
Reverse
A flying dove to left with an olive branch in its beak
Lettering:
UNITED FOR A REFORM OF PARLIAMENT
1795?"
The Fables of Æsop (Jacobs)/The Bundle of Sticks.
**"An old man on the point of death summoned his sons around him to give them some parting advice. He ordered his servants to bring in a faggots of sticks, and said to his eldest son: "Break it." The son strained and strained, but with all his efforts was unable to break the Bundle. The other sons also tried, but none of them was successful. "Untie the faggots, said the father," and each of you take a stick." When they had done so, he called out to them: "Now, break," and each stick was easily broken. "You see my meaning," said their father." .....Union gives strength.
"The London Corresponding Society was founded in 1792 in order to spread revolutionary doctrines, similar to those propagated in France following the Revolution, by pursuing political reform through education.
It stressed the necessity of government by the people and highlighted the corrupt method of selection for Parliament, whilst advocating peace with France. It's greatest success was when 150,000 people attended one of their meetings in Copenhagen Fields, London in 1795.
The Society corresponded with other like-minded groups at home and abroad. The Corresponding Act of 1798 crushed all such radical societies."
The worn token.
Example. Bundle of sticks down by their feet.
"In the meaning of bundle alternate spellings in Early Modern English include fagate, faget, fagett, faggott, fagot, fagatt, fagott, ffagott, and faggat."
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