Looks like a tool check token/tag. Is there mining in that area?
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Found this today in northeast PA. I was hunting an area south of Towanda PA. Anyone have a clue what it is?
My guess would be a railroad employee's numbered I.D. Token. I found one similar in a 100 year old railroad logging camp. There was sometimes a I.D. token issued to each man with a similar numbered token of the same number attached to the cookhouse table to identify your seat. Less confusion and kept freeloaders from getting a free meal.
I have one, and a friend of mine has three. They are mine car tags. When coal or other material was loaded by hand the miner would put his tag on the car he loaded.
Ours are from around 1880 and are "valued" at $25-30. We know where ours are from because of the mine that used to be there. Yours is similar to ours, so I would make an estimated guess that it would be the same unless its from a gold mine. Anything to do with gold is more valuable for nostalgic reasons. Good find!
When i lived in WV i use to find ones sorta like that. Normal there ID tags for people heading down into the mine. Board set up somewhere near mine would have your name on it and an in and out hook. When you were heading in you hung your tag on the in when you came out you would flip it to out. This way was an easy way to see who might still be left in mine. More so if there was ever a cavein searchers would know. The tags i found were sorta like yours.
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