Augustus B. Sage, Catalogue of Coins, Medals, and Tokens, No. 1, New
York: February, 1859, p. 1.
Advertisement and description of the series of Sage’s “Historical
Tokens,” nos. 1-10.
A. B. Sage, Catalogue of Coins, Medals, and Tokens, New York: June,
1859.
On inner front-cover advertisement and description of the series of
Sage’s “Historical Tokens,” nos. 1-14, and of another token series,
“Odds and Ends.” These data, though of general numismatic interest,
are not reproduced in L. Forrer’s Biographical Dictionary of
Medalists. Hence they are given here in full.
Historical Tokens:
No. 1. The Old Provoost Prison, 2 dies.
No. 2. The Old City Hall, Wall Street.
No. 3. Faneuil Hall, Boston.
No. 4. Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia.
No. 5. Old Jersey Prison Ship.
No. 6. State House, Philadelphia, 2 dies.
No. 7. Mount Vernon, Washington’s Residence.
No. 8. Old Hasbrook House, Newburgh.
No. 9. Richmond Hill House, N. Y.
No. 10. Washington’s Head Quarters, Tappan.
No. 11. Washington’s Head Quarters, Valley Forge.
No. 12. Sir Henry Clinton’s House, N. Y.
No. 13. The Old Swamp Church.
No. 14. The Charter Oak.
“Upon receipt of $4.00, we will send a complete set of the above tokens
to any place in the United States. The series will be continued
from time to time.“
Odds and Ends:
No. 1. Crystal Palace.
No. 2. Old Sugar House.
No. 3. Paul Morphy.
“The above series will be continued from time to time. Struck in good
copper, and sold at the low price of 25 cents each.”
S. H. and H. Chapman, Catalogue of the Celebrated and Valuable
Collection of American Coins and Medals of the Late Charles I.
Bushnell. Philadelphia: Chapman, 1882, p. 31, nos. 459-462:
“Sage’s Historical Tokens.”
L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Vol. V. London: Spink
and Son, 1912, p. 296.
Forrer’s pertinent account on Sage’s “Historical Tokens” must be
corrected in accordance with the data given in the present essay.
“The Old Provoost” of New York
I. N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island: 1498-1909.
Vol. III, New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1918. p. 972, s. v. New Gaol
(“Goal”).
John Pintard, “The Old Jail.” The New York Mirror: A Weekly Journal,
Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts, Vol. IX, No. 10 (New
York, September 10, 1831), p. 73.
With a reproduction of “The Old Provoost,” drawn by Alexander J. Davis
and engraved by Alexander Anderson.
Frank Bergen Kelley, Historical Guide to the City of New York. Revised
Edition. New York: The New York Commercial Tercentenary
Commission, 1913, p. 55.
“The Old Jersey Prison Ship”
Albert G. Greene (editor), Recollections of the Jersey Prison-Ship:
Taken, and Prepared for Publication, from the Original Manuscript
of the Late Captain Thomas Dring, of Providence, R. I., One of the
Prisoners. New York: P. M. Davis, 1831. Re-edited by Henry B.
Dawson. Morrisania, N. Y.: H. B. Dawson, 1865.
Especially p. 14, note 3; p. 196; reproduction of an engraving of the
“exterior view of the ship,” facing p. 16.
[Anonymous], 1888. A Christmas Reminder: Being the Names of about Eight
Thousand Persons, A Small Portion of the Number Confined on Board
the British Prison Ships during the War of the Revolution.
Brooklyn, N. Y.: Society of Old Brooklynites. 1888.
Containing the names of the “prisoners confined on board the British
ship Jersey.”
Henry R. Stiles, Letters from the Prisons and Prison-Ships of the
Revolution. (The Wallabout Prison-Ship Series, No. 1). New York:
Privately printed, 1865.
Includes letters written on the Jersey.