Ferry ticket

[malj1]

My favourite ferry ticket is this Scottish FIFE AND MIDLOTHIAN FERRIES N^o. T over 403 in heavy copper with blank reverse approx. 43 X 26mm. with cut corners.

[Figleaf]

Superb piece, Malcolm. Thanks. Got some ferry tokens, but none remotely as nice.

Peter

[Kushi]

Beautiful token. Where in Scotland was it used? Is the metal Brass, copper or bronze.

[FosseWay]

I imagine it refers to the Queensferry ferry, which crossed the Firth of Forth roughly where the Forth Road Bridge now is and stopped operating when that bridge opened in 1964.

[andyg]

this is perhaps a better link

http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.php?view=56.01897,-3.43668&map=NPEMap&zoom=7&layer=4&markers=56.19717,-3.28441,

Nice plug for a certain other site

[malj1]

Beautiful token. Where in Scotland was it used? Is the metal Brass, copper or bronze.

It is in copper and quite thick. I have seen it attributed to Queensferry.

[FosseWay]

this is perhaps a better link ...

Nice plug for a certain other site

Yes, that's better. My internet connection was giving me grief last night and I couldn't get any further than the landing page.

[Kushi]

Smith and Smith (1981) list a similar piece, but round, brass, 29 mm.

[malj1]

Not listed in Davis and Waters Tickets and Passes publ. 1922