This token may relate to Joseph Lea, a boot and clothes cleaner, who was tried and convicted at the Central Criminal Court for stealing a watch, a knife, a sovereign, 3 shillings and a sixpence belonging to William Steventon, his master. He was also convicted of stealing a coat from Charles Martin.

Lea was sentenced to seven years’ transportation, and sailed for New South Wales on the Norfolk on 27 October 1836, arriving 12 February 1837.