Finds from a long gone home site. Buckle, a fancy copper piece that might have come from a pill box that says cechoslovakia on the back and an 1863 civil war token. This is the second one of this George Ames drug dealer Belvidere tokens I've found, E-bay @ $30. HH DFW
Here's a response I offered a couple of years ago to a similar find by another TH-er:
Geo. Ames' bio: AMES GEO. B. Dealer in Dry Goods, Carpets, etc.; born inWestfield,Chautauqua Co., N. Y., Feb., 1837; removed to Belvidere, 1851; opened the first Drug, Book and Paper Store on south side Nov. 1854, being the only store on that side, in tlese branches, for several years; added Dry Goods, etc. in 1804; he sold the Book and Paper business in 1808, and the Drug department in 1870; he is also of the firm of Ames, Lowry & Burnside, Boouo, Ia.; he owns 1,500 acres of land in Iowa; married Miss Eva S. Watson, of Nushua, N. H., Feb., 1801; the children of this union are Cora E.,Genevieve, Minnie, Alta Maud and George B. Ames, Jr.; Minnie died Oct. 8,1867. Don..... Source: http://www.illinoisancestors.org/win...derebioab.html
Very nice Token Rich! We should get a hunt in sometime.. Still using the DFX?
Since I went with the 10x12 SEF, mine is a whole new machine. Dug a 1852
3 Cent in a bed of square nails yesterday..