Samson Novelty Company Limited
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The Samson Novelty Company, London, was started in 1925 by Jack Holloway. It was a leading importer of american games machines in Europe while also manufacturing games machines of its own. It exported machines to sweden and these tokens are thought to have been used in them. The company closed in the 1960s.
Note on tokens 1-5 the word Novelty is wrongly spelt as Novety.
Samson Novelty Company Limited | ||
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File:SA-SL-SNCL1.jpg | ||
Filename | SA-SL-SNCL1 | |
Side 1 | SAMSON NOVETY Co. LTD. LONDON . | |
Side 2 | SIGMA STOCKHOLM (inside a large star) | |
Manufacture | brass | |
Size (mm) | 27 | |
Weight (grams) | ||
Notes | Round | |
Source | ||
File:SA-SL-SNCL2.jpg | ||
Filename | SA-SL-SNCL2 | |
Side 1 | SAMSON NOVETY Co. LTD. LONDON . | |
Side 2 | SIGMA / STOCKHOLM | |
Manufacture | brass | |
Size (mm) | 27 | |
Weight (grams) | ||
Notes | Round | |
Source | ||
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Filename | SA-SL-SNCL3 | |
Side 1 | SAMSON NOVETY Co. LTD. LONDON . | |
Side 2 | SIGMA / STOCKHOLM | |
Manufacture | brass | |
Size (mm) | 27 | |
Weight (grams) | ||
Notes | Round with large centre hole | |
Source | ||
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Filename | SA-SL-SNCL4 | |
Side 1 | SAMSON NOVETY Co. LTD. LONDON . | |
Side 2 | SIGMA / STOCKHOLM | |
Manufacture | copper | |
Size (mm) | 27 | |
Weight (grams) | ||
Notes | Round | |
Source | ||
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Filename | SA-SL-SNCL5 | |
Side 1 | SAMSON NOVETY Co. LTD. LONDON . | |
Side 2 | blank | |
Manufacture | brass | |
Size (mm) | 27 | |
Weight (grams) | ||
Notes | Round | |
Source | ||
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Filename | SA-SL-SNCL6 | |
Side 1 | SAMSON NOVELTY Co. LTD. LONDON . | |
Side 2 | blank | |
Manufacture | brass | |
Size (mm) | 27 | |
Weight (grams) | ||
Notes | Round with large centre hole | |
Source |
This Samson Token was made specifically for Jules Tivoli, Valbo, Gävle
Jules Tivoli Samson token | ||
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Filename | SA-GJLTV19 | |
Side 1 | JULES * NÖJESHALL * | |
Side 2 | SAMSON NOVETY Co. LTD. . LONDON . | |
Manufacture | Brass | |
Size (mm) | 27 | |
Weight (grams) | ||
Notes | Round | |
Source |