This One's A Long Way From Home

[civilwarren]

Took advantage of the nice weather and headed over to a site near Independence, Mo. to do some detecting with my buddy Mike.

My second target was this nice brass saloon token. My first brass token find.

What is more amazing is that it was found more than 1,682 miles from its home. If only it could talk, imagine the stories it could tell.

Keep Diggin' and Dream'n.

Best Regards from the Kansas-Missouri border,

Steve Warren

[TooManyHobbies]

Cool token. Could you find any year info on it?

[RickyD]

I live in Washington State and had never heard of Cunningham Washington. Looked it up and its in Eastern Washington in Adams County. And is now nothing more than 5 private homes out in the middle of farm country. It lost its post office in 1980. Obviously, it was a town in its day.

[Wldbil]

Very Cool Token... Congrats

RickyD - If your close enough, you may have just got a great lead

[curbdiggercarl57]

Very envious.
Any token found that states "saloon" is a killer find.
Kudos!
Carl

[Tuberale]

GREAT find, no matter where it came from! WTG on the Cunningham, WA token!

[hdmech71]

Reckon it was good for trade on a lady of the night as well? Nice find! Yeah the one fellow is lucky to have such info on a ghost town now.

[Ken in Georgia]

Got to love the tokens!!!

[VWandSTUDEBAKER]

A little more than half way down the page.

http://www.saloontokens.info/page59.php

Not sure what this is all about.

http://tokencatalog.com/token_record...td_create_uid=

A little more than half way down.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm...m&File_Id=7835

[looking4largecent]

Nice find!!!

[PikesPeakCharlie]

Great token and "Saloon" to boot Congrats !!!!

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Awesome token! I've seen similar tokens from small northern California towns sell for $500.00 or more. You could have a rare maverick token there!?

[BuckleBoy]

You will want to investigate this token. Contact someone who specializes in Washington State tokens. Anything that says "Saloon" on it could be a Very Valuable Find.

Best Wishes,


Buckleboy

[idahotokens]

Fluke - and anybody else who doesn't know: A "maverick" token is one that does not have the town and state on it.
John in the 208

[civilwarren]

Thanks folks for all of the kind words and information. Will let you know what I find out about this token.

Thanks!
Steve

[idahotokens]

Erickson's WA Book shows four tokens in Cunningham and indicates the town was named Scott from 1889-1902 when it was changed to Cunningham:
Club Saloon / Cunningham Wash - rarity 6 on a 1-10 scale, approximately 12-14 known
a maverick Club Saloon / Peabody's - rarity 7
a maverick Wellington - rarity 7
Wellington / Cunningham Wn - rarity 7

Unfortunately Erickson's book provides no information to support the maverick attributions.

The 1910 Census shows two saloon-keepers in Cunningham, Frank P. Schwalbe and John W. Foley. There is a possibility that they were partners in the same saloon, but it is more likely there were two saloons in town on the day the census-taker came through. No telling the names of the saloons from the census.

By Sep 1918, Frank Paul Schwalbe had moved to Loon Lake, WA and was a liveryman there.

John in the 208

[civilwarren]

Thanks for the info.

Just heard from a friend of mine who's a coin dealer in Sandpoint, Idaho. He says my token is a rare one. It is rated R-6 (3-5 known) and the town is rated R-7 for location rarity (9-11 known for location).

He values it between $150 - $250.

And yes, I'm doing the Happy Dance.

Best Regards to all,
Steve