tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566370076627007470.post8020513938718285759..comments2023-11-02T03:21:59.181-07:00Comments on Collect Communion Tokens: Market WatchScudzy Coin Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07874274402556818647noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566370076627007470.post-53675481701301927732014-04-05T16:13:11.675-07:002014-04-05T16:13:11.675-07:00Thanks for your kind comments. I will visit the we...Thanks for your kind comments. I will visit the website to get a look. Interesting melding of token designs that you describe -- makes you wonder how much deliberation went into describing the metal token that way.Scudzy Coin Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07874274402556818647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566370076627007470.post-9142084133670664552014-04-02T14:54:04.974-07:002014-04-02T14:54:04.974-07:00I enjoy the very regular postings on your blog, an...I enjoy the very regular postings on your blog, and congratulate you on your initiative and enterprise. The mention of communion cards in the current post reminded me of a narrative in a novel by Robert E. Knowles. The book, St. Cuthbert’s of the West, is listed in the bibliography of Communion Tokens, with Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of those of Dumfriesshire, by Rev. H. A. Whitelaw. Knowles was a Canadian Presbyterian minister, and his novel published in 1905, is thought to be loosely based on his experiences as minister of Knox’s Church, Galt, Ontario, where he was the pastor from 1898 to 1915. In chapter XII he relates an emotive tale of the St. Cuthbert token, that is described as having a “picture o’ the goblet” on one side, and dated 1845. The relevance of communion cards comes in the story when they replace the metal tokens – “that was the day they tell’t the fowk hoo communion cairds was better, an hoo they wudna use the tokens ony mair. Then Donald grippit the seat, an’ he rose an’ gaed oot o’ the kirk, an’ cam hame…That’s why he never gaed mair to the kirk…” To appreciate the context of this snippet, the book can be downloaded for free at: http://manybooks.net/authors/knowlesr.html <br /><br />The book appears to have been popular as it was reprinted a number of times and published on both sides of the Atlantic. The American edition shortened the title to St. Cuthbert’s. The modern reader may find the prose flowery, sentimental and religiose, but the dialogues rendered in the Scots vernacular are insightful and often humorous. <br /> <br />The fictional token the cards replaced seems to be an amalgam of the St Cuthbert’s tokens of Edinburgh that portray the chalice, and the tokens of Knox’ Church, Galt, which bear the date 1845.<br />Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11575917114540817278noreply@blogger.com