The National Museum of Australia has 314 convict love tokens in its collection. These tokens were made by convicts around the time of their sentencing and were given to friends and loved ones as mementos.
Token engraved with a border of cut marks and the stippled image of a man wearing chains. Inside the border runs the stippled text:
YOUR . ILL . FATED . BROTHER . BOUND . IN . SLAVERY .
On the inside of this border is the name:
.DENEY. . BRIANT.
Sophie_Jensen says:
Hi Paul – thanks for your question. You are right in that
this particular token does not have anything to do with transpo...
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Paul says:
How does this token pertain to Australian convicts ?
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emagica says:
I wonder if they ever met up again?
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