two tok----kens over the line!!!!

[artzstuff1]

These were found in chester il. today,,, any info on these would be cool,,,time period ??

thanks

arthur

 

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[Mackaydon]

The reverse of the top token reads: A. E. Schmidt Co. Inc. St. Louis (around the street address)

 

[artzstuff1]

The reverse of the top token reads: A. E. Schmidt Co. Inc. St. Louis (around the street address)

Thats the same as my cigar token that I dug a few weeks back!! thats wierd,,,



arthur

 

[intimer]

never seen this token. looks like a better one.

the reverse is the manufacturer. here is a link and some data copied from it.

the date seems to be late 19th century to 1920's is my guess.

of course the illinois tokeen book may have specific. i will look a little more on the web.

http://www.aeschmidtbilliards.com/History.html

"In addition to selling and installing new tables, Ernst and Oscar now had a brisk business of moving tables in and out of breweries and bars, and furnishing necessary repairs and supplies, and another "niche" business - "trade checks". The checks were brass, coin-sized tokens stamped with the bar name on one side and the words "Good for 5 cents (or 10 cents) in Trade" on the opposite side."

 

[intimer]

i found on wikipedia chester, ill. is the home of popeye-------------COOL

'Chester is the "Home of Popeye", where a six-foot, 900 lb. bronze statue of Popeye stands in the Elzie C. Segar Memorial Park, which also honors Popeye's creator, Elzie Segar."


and it is HUGE deal in chester!

http://www.chesterill.com/index.php?id=71

and movie sets: "The city was the filming location of scenes from the 1967 movie In the Heat of the Night, the 1993 movie The Fugitive, the 1994 film documentary Hoop Dreams and the 2000 film Poor White Trash.[3]"

 

[tokensmith]

Your token isn't listed in the Illinois book, but that's true of lots of tokens since the most recent edition was published over 25 years ago.

A.M. Piosik is listed in the 1928 Dun as a restaurant in Chester.

 

[Mackaydon]

Some history: ('piggy backing' on Intimer's comments above)

A.E. Schmidt was established by German immigrant Ernst Schmidt, who came to St. Louis in 1849. The company he founded is the oldest family-owned billiard manufacturer company in the US.

In addition to selling and installing new tables, Schmidt had a brisk business of moving tables in and out of breweries and bars, and furnishing necessary repairs and supplies, and another "niche" business - "trade checks".

The checks were brass tokens stamped with the bar name on one side and the words "Good for 5 cents (or 10 cents) in Trade" on the opposite side. To make the table games more interesting, the loser had to pay the bar 5 cents or 10 cents per game, and the winner received a 5 cent or 10 cent merchandise token from the house.

Although this added spice to the game, and for a while sparked table sales, it eventually made "pool players" and "pool rooms" notorious names. Some of the better players practically lived and worked in the bars - eating, drinking, and playing at the inexperienced players' expense. The area of the "pool hustler" was born.
Don........

Source: http://www.aeschmidtbilliards.com/home.html

 

[idahotokens]

And, btw, the second token is a Missouri sales tax token. There are other write-ups in this forum on how and when tax tokens were used, but this zinc one was used ca. 1937-42.
John in ID

 

[nova]

All I can say it's a good token find and would be tough to part with it, if it were mine.

 

[allen]

wtg on those cool tokens !