A VICTORIAN COCK METAL 'BILLY & CHARLEY' MEDALLION AND ANOTHER, IN COPPER ALLOY, CIRCA 1870, the first with integral loop and decorated with a stylised deity on each face enclosed by a brief inscription; the second of similar form, with an heraldic shield on one face and a knightly profile on the other, the first: 9.7 cm (2) Provenance Anthony Dove (1938-2021) The majority of Billies and Charlies (or Shadwell Dock Forgeries) were produced by the labourers or navigators (navvies) Billy Smith and Charley Eaton. The inscriptions on the present medallions, in keeping with many others, make no sense, presumably since the forgers were illiterate. See Halliday 1986.