👀Today's Finds👀

[StonedOregonhunter]

Hunted about 5hrs this morning, early before the heat!! The site was a old 1855 home and the address is **** ****** ** ********, OR!!! I found a cool 1905 Portland Fair pin I believe, about 6 inches in roots. Also some old shot gun shells (UMC No 16 New Club and Winchester Blue Rival No 10). Found a play coin from chicken little as well!
(1905 Portland Oregon fair was the Lewis and Clark centennial)

Hope you enjoyed today's Finds! HH

 

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[dirtlooter]

pretty cool finds, congrats

 

[RVRoamer73]

Nice finds !! Congrats !!

 

[Mzjavert]

I just adore the fair token.

 

[Kurios1]

Cool old token thingy. Chicken Little money? Really, COOL! I hope your old home sight brings you even cooler old goodies.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on some nice stuff

 

[StonedOregonhunter]

Cool old token thingy. Chicken Little money? Really, COOL! I hope your old home sight brings you even cooler old goodies.

Hey Kurios1, thanks! From my understanding chicken Little is a folklore and turned into books and games. I actually got some information on this play coin from A past post on Tnet. Oh and I was going to message you and see if you knew there's another gentleman from Dixon on here he goes by DigginDave, thought you might want to know. HH

 

[Molewacker]

Nice finds! Have you deciphered the name on the Token? I see Howard but can't make out the rest -

thanks for posting!!!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the cool relics!

 

[StonedOregonhunter]

Nice finds! Have you deciphered the name on the Token? I see Howard but can't make out the rest -

thanks for posting!!!

Yeah it is "J Howard Taylor Columbia SD" did a quick Google search and found he was a pharmacist in 1905 in Columbia South Dakota. Pretty cool!

Thanks for the post HH

 

[StonedOregonhunter]

Hunted about 5hrs this morning, early before the heat!! The site was a old 1855 home and the address is **** ****** ** ********, OR!!! I found a cool 1905 Portland Fair pin I believe, about 6 inches in roots. Also some old shot gun shells (UMC No 16 New Club and Winchester Blue Rival No 10). Found a play coin from chicken little as well!
(1905 Portland Oregon fair was the Lewis and Clark centennial)

Hope you enjoyed today's Finds! HH

Update: I found out a little more information about the token, here is a reply from Oregon historical society:

Thank you for your email. We have a few of these in our museum collection, all with different names engraved. I believe these were a commemorative token sold at the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition and Oriental Fair of 1905 in Portland. I think visitors could pay and request their names be added to the souvenir. For more information, you could research the fair and its souvenirs. Our research library may be a good place to start: http://librarycatalog.ohs.org/EOSWebOPAC/

Best of luck!
Nicole Yasuhara
Collections Manager
Oregon Historical Society