Æ 28.4mm.  W. CAMPBELL & CO  PATENT WROUGHT  NAIL WORKS  SELLY OAK. BIRMINGHAM with ESTABLISHED 1860 in the centre.  R. TRADE MARK at sides of cockerel above shield inscribed YOU MAY BEND BUT CANNOT BREAK ME   Davis (Warks), 1895: 732.  Edge knock, otherwise VF.  Rare.

The 1868 Kelly's directory gives their office address as 26 Ann Street.

A report of the commissioners for child labour of 1864 says: these works are in a rural district, in which are two or three other factories, viz. iron works, rolling mills, and a factory, formerly a soap works, but now closed. There is ample space and air. The nails are cut by a machine out of red-hot plates of iron.