Convict Love Token - 1844 - S W
Transcription
Back
Text engraved with two stippled hearts and a diamond at the base and eight lines of stippled cursive text:
Once i
Was a tend
er Child and
on my mothers
Knee But Know
i am in Prison
Bown down
in Slavery
Front
Token engraved with a stippled scalloped border and three lines of text embellished with diamonds, swirls and a heart:
L . B
S . W
1844
Diameter
34.0 mm
Copyright: National Museum of Australia