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Canadian Countermark

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Canada Start Price:100.00 CAD Estimated At:200.00 - 250.00 CAD
Canadian Countermark


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Canadian Countermark - SAVAGE within rectangular cartouche on obv. of City Bank ½ penny, 1837, Br 522 (M.I. 820, Brunk S-142).

This mark is similar to the one illustrated by Langdon, and identified as that of George Savage, Sr. (1767-1845), progenitor of the Savage firms. As George Sr. had retired by 1836, the mark is most certainly not his, but is that of his son, Joseph, to whom the business was transferred in 1842. Another son, George, had earlier on, in 1829, been placed in charge of the store just opened in Toronto. The Savage firm mostly imported silver, or had other working silversmiths in the city manufacture special orders that may have been pressing. Presentation pieces and trophies from the Henry Birks Collection of Canadian silver by Ross Fox, Ottawa, 1985, clarifies the issue of the principals in the firm and the dates of their association. Several wonderful presentation pieces with the Savage and, more importantly, the Savage & Lyman hallmarks are reproduced in the book. (See figs. 43-46). (Marked Impressions).

Note: this lot is part of The Richard Cooper Collection.