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CEYLON: Plantation Tokens, AE token, 1867, VF

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CEYLON: Plantation Tokens, AE token, 1867, VF
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CEYLON: Plantation Tokens, AE token, 1867, Prid-61, Lowsley-7, Mitchiner-2241, LEE, HEDGES, & Co. around tea bush, date below // COLPETTY MILLS at center, VF. The inception of this firm dates back to 1857 when W. D. Lee started business in Colombo for Brice and Boustead of London. In 1866 he admitted J. R. Hedges as partner and from that year the firm became known as Lee, Hedges & Co. The firm had a branch in Kandy and soon built up an attractive estate agency business, they also had a large coffee curing business, On the death of Lee in 1871, G.A.M. Hedges, brother of JR. Hedges, came into the firm but in 1877, the partnership was dissolved and JR. Hedges left Ceylon in 1880. The firm had two Mills in Colombo. The earlier one at Kollupitiya called Colpetty, a coffee and oil mill, employing about 600 hands, the other, the Dematagode Coffee Mills employing about 400 hands. In 1880 the Dematagode Mills were given up, but the Colpetty Mills continued and in 1894 it was known as Konupitiya Coffee Curing Mills, Cinnamon Press, Tea Factory and Dessicated Coconut Manufactory.The copper token minted in England in 1867 for company started in 1857 by W. D. Lee, admitted J. R. Hedges as partner in 1866. The value of the tokens issued in 1867 was 41/2d. each, or about the pay of a day's work for a woman.