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Updated: May 27, 2025
Then you can get snyde jewellery made to look the same as real stuff, and when you are in the shop with your moll, she is trying on a ring perhaps, when you put the snyde one in its place and she sticks to the right one." Gentleman. Prostitute of the gayest sort. "I am afraid that game would be above my abilities?"
I'll tell you a game that you might try now and again as you have a chance, and that is 'fawney dropping, you know 'fawney' means a ring. Well, you must have a 'pal, and give him a 'snyde' ring with a ticket and the price marked on it.
He once made a good deal by making snyde postage stamps." "But one would require to know something about the different metals before they could be able to make 'snyde." "Yes, that is necessary, but I think I know who will tell you. He has got twenty years, and is not likely to get a chance of doing more at the trade.
'The snyde' or 'the queer' is the technical name by which such products are known. Distribution is, of course, the main difficulty; it necessitates mutual trust between various confederates. Bob Hewett still kept to his daily work, but gradually he was being drawn into alliance with an increasing number of men who scorned the yoke of a recognised occupation.
"Why, it's no use trying to get work; I am not able for anything very hard now, and I think I shall make snyde half-crowns." "You'll get caught again if you commence that game." "No I won't. I did that when I was out last, and several times before, and I have never been caught yet for that job. I can go and buy silver spoons, and get tools that I can destroy in a few minutes."
Suppose you start in the morning with a good sovereign and a 'snyde' half-sovereign in your pocket; you go into some place or other, and ask for change of the sovereign, or you order some beer and give the sovereign in payment; it's likely you will get half-a-sovereign and silver back in change.
Then is the time to 'twine. You change your mind, after you have 'rung' your snyde half 'quid' with the good one, and throwing down the 'snyde' half, say you prefer silver; the landlord or landlady, or whoever it is, will pick up the snyde half-quid, thinking of course it is the same one they had given you!" Counterfeit. Substituted. Sovereign. "Is that a good game, do you think?"
"Snyde, you know, means counterfeit or bad, anything bad we call snydey. Snyde-pitching is passing bad money; and is a capital racket, especially if you can get rid of 'fins." "What are 'fins?" "Five pound notes, or flash notes. I can give you the address of one or two fellows who make bad coins, and you can pass one or two when you see a fair chance."
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