Communion token

Date1825

Issued by United Associate Congregation of Jedburgh

MediumPewter

DimensionsOL: ¾"; OW: 5/8"

Credit LineGift of Peter R. G. Hornsby

Object number1974-181

DescriptionRectangular planchet with clipped corners. Both sides with inscriptions within linear border.
Label TextCommunion tokens have been used in the Presbyterian Church in Scotland from the late sixteenth century to insure that those partaking of the sacrament of the Last Supper were considered spiritually fit to do so. The earliest were in the form of paper tickets. Metallic ones soon replaced these with pewter being the most common material. They continued to be used in Scotland into the first half of the twentieth century. The initials on one side of this token stand for the United Associate Congregation of Jedburgh, and those on the other with the date are those of the minister.

Several elements from the eighteenth-century communion service of the church at Jedburgh are now in the Colonial Williamsburg collection. They include a pair of flagons, a pair of communion cups, and a pair of alms dishes. (See accessions 1973-243, 1-2; 1973-242, 1-2; and 1973-244, 1-2.) Two nineteenth-century pewter communion tokens from the church are in the collection as well (accessions 1974-180 and 1974-181).

Inscribed"1/U.A.C/JEDB" in relief on one side and "W.N/1825" in relief on the other.
ProvenanceGift of Peter R.G. Hornsby, Witney, Oxfordshire, Eng.