A rare Worcester button and a trade token circa 1755-60 and circa 1768-80

the button with a 'Smoky Primitive' landscape scene with a couple, possibly picking fruit, the trade token printed with 'I promise to pay the Bearer on demand two Shillings - W. Davis At the China Factory'

Trade token provenance: The Perrins Collection no. 224 (collection label to the reverse)

These items are probably the 'Two Counters' exhibited in the English Ceramic Circle's bi-centenary exhibition in 1951, no. 392

Trade token: the printed text has some wear to the sides on the lower half. Button: no visible damage.
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Printed buttons are extremely rare.  For two more, one with 'La Chanson' and another with 'Old Age' after Boitard, see Cyril Cook, Supplement to the Life and Word of Robert Hancock, 1955, item 128, fig. 2.

For a Worcester factory one shilling trade token, see The Zorensky Collection, part I, sold Bonhams 16^th March 2004, lot 226.  William Davis was one of the original fifteen business partners who set up the Worcester factory and signed the original deed of partnership on 4^th June 1751.He died in 1783.