Two Tokens

[Lt1stone]

These are two tokens that I dug, and I can't find any information on them , and Does anyone know what there worth ?

 

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[idahotokens]

Hi--help me out a little on these - what is the full name on the brass one and what is written below Berheim on the aluminum one?

John in ID

 

[Lt1stone]

The first one is Good For 5 In Trade L.L. Hickeys, and the aluminum one is Kentucky Club House L. Berheim Jr. Good for 5c.

 

[idahotokens]

Put a magnifier to the aluminum one - there is something written at the bottom below the name. An address, perhaps.
John in ID

 

[Lt1stone]

The alum one at the bottom; SHAWNEE, OIT.

 

[idahotokens]

Okay - thanks! Now we are getting somewhere! That probably is Shawnee, OK, or O. T. I don't see the token in Walker's Catalog of OK Tokens, but there is a new reference book out on OK tokens - I just haven't bought it yet. I'll see if I can find if this one is listed in it. The proprietor doesn't show up in the 1900-1930 Censuses, but that can be because he wasn't there on the decade year.

I haven't found anything on the brass one from Hinkeys.

John in ID

 

[idahotokens]

The 1900 Oklahoma Territory Gazetteer shows Lucien Bernheim as a saloon-keeper. Putting the N in Berheim, I find L. Bernheim in Shawnee as a Merchant and his son Lucine Bernheim as Traveling Salesman. So my guess is that the son settled down in Shawnee to run the Kentucky Club House in 1900. The family came to this country from France in the mid 1880s, so the Club wasn't named for their "old Kentucky home", but maybe they stopped in KY on the way to OK.

How about posting a picture of the other side of both pieces?

John in ID

 

[Lt1stone]

Heres the back side L.L. Hickey's is blank on the backside; and the aluminum one says Good For 5c In Trade.