• Code 4094

C. & W. LTD [Coote & Warren, Coal Merchants]. Ten shillings brass Coal token.


Brass token. 10/-. Diameter 35.9mm brass.  A little lustre, VF.  The image is an unretouched photo of the actual token offered for sale.

Coote & Warren Ltd, were based in St Ives and London and were prominent players in the coal-trading business, covering East Anglia and the north London suburbs. They were operating 1853 – 1960 and up until 1948 their name could have been seen on their  wagons delivering coal to merchants around the country. They were big enough to have their own railway wagon building and repair works at Peterborough.   This token was issued for use in Wisbech. 

Thomas Coote (1850 – 24 October 1939 at Hythe, Kent) was an English coal merchant and Liberal politician.  According to Wikipedia, Coote was born at Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, the son of Thomas Coote of St Ives, Huntingdonshire. He was educated privately and became a coal merchant in the firm of Coote & Son, Coal Merchants, of St Ives.  In the 1885 general election, Coote was elected Member of Parliament for Huntingdon, following Sir Robert Peel, but lost the seat in the 1886 general election. He had stood as the Liberal candidate in the Cambridgeshire by-election, 21 March 1884. He was a member of the Reform Club and an original member of the National Liberal Club.

Coote married Elizabeth Pauline Day in 1878. They lived at Ambury House, Huntingdon.


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