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Undated: Sarah / S B

Object number: 2008.0039.0021

Undated: Sarah / S B

Object number: 2008.0039.0021

Diameter: 35mm, thickness: 3mm

Front:

Token engraved with lines of stippled text, encircled by a border of stippled vine leaves and bunches of grapes:

TIME MAY
PASS YEARS MAY
FLY . EVERY OAK DECAY
AND DIE . AND EVERY
JOYFUL DREAM MAY SET .
BUT YOU DEAR SARAH
I NEVER SHALL
FORGET

Back:

Token engraved with stippled concentric circles of text and design. The outer circle of text reads (from top right):

THE ABSENT ARE TO MEMORY DEAR   FORGET ME NOT

There is a bracketed heart after the words ‘DEAR’ and ‘NOT’, and the inner circle is a leaf design. The innermost circle contains four lines of text:

S . B
BORN
Jany 12th
1815

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