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[McCDig]

I've been hunting a park in Baltimore City and over the weekend recovered a token. On one side the token reads "Fairgrounds 306 E. Baltimore St." My imagination begins to run wild and I'm thinking I've found the location to some old fairgrounds in Baltimore. No wonder that that location on any old map of the City never shows a fair grounds there.....anyway a real fair grounds wouldn't have a number address.

In fact, "Fairgrounds" on this small token refers to a store, that, among other things, sold rimfire ammunition. I found a number of the store's classified ads in 1940s copies of "Billboard" magazine.

 

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[Old Pueblo]

Cool find

 

[against the wind]

Nice find, great background research.

 

[RVRoamer74]

A very cool token. Congrats on the save.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Great token McCdig.

 

[Jamie1993]

Nice token and the history to go with it. I still think there's more than you think. Probably on the crest of the hill.
Congrats on a great find.

 

[Clad2Silver]

Nice token......always nice to find them.

 

[idahotokens]

Nice find! This token is listed in Schenkman's MD Merchant Tokens book as F15 with an a or c suffix depending on the diameter. It is also on tokencatalog:

FAIR GROUNDS / F.G. / 306 E. BALTO ST. (TC-69589)

John in the Great 208

 

[Jyverb64]

Love the tokens, congrats!

 

[Inspector]

Great token & nice research, congrats on the save

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Cool find!

 

[highnam]

Great token. Gosh I love digging tokens, research is half the fun

 

[catyron]

The background research is great -- as is the token! Thanks for sharing.

 

[BLK HOLE]

Cool token and fun research results