Dog Tag Challenge - Can you beat this date?

[Tommy G]

I was just on the "Today's Finds" forum and many of us have had to slow down a bit due to the brutal heat. One member commented that his best find lately was a 1962 dog tag. That got me to thinking. I found the oldest dog tag I've ever seen a couple weeks ago, issued in 1919! Can anybody beat that?



MALE
324
Powhatan Co.
Virginia
1919

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Family Maps of Hinds County, Mississippi, Deluxe Edition - Grab it through Amazon!

[Terry Soloman]

I can't. My oldest is 1946. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/members/18502-albums4377-picture1218408.html

 

[Tommy G]

I can't. My oldest is 1946. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/members/18502-albums4377-picture1218408.html

Pretty cool, though. First one I've seen shaped like that.

 

[mick56]

Here's my oldest.

 

[Tommy G]

Here's my oldest.

Wow! That's a nice one, Mick. You've trumped me by 22 years!

 

[Oddjob]

I have never found a dog tag for a pet before. I have however found then from soldiers, I just report them and turn them in. Twice I have been asked to take people to where found them and once they where able to recover a few bodies.

A buddy of mine has a dog collection (for pets) that he has found over the years. Pretty cool stuff.

 

[Trezurehunter]

No, my oldest is a 1926.

 

[masterjedi]

My oldest is 1923... many are in the 1800's...

 

[Scrappy]

A member a while back found a banner dog tag. If I remember correctly it was from San Francisco. Well into the 1800's, maybe 1870's?

It's somewhere mothballed up in the banner, but that was a killer find.

Nice tag!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

1893 Pacific Grove, CA

Some of the older west coast smaller town dog tags can fetch good collector value !

 

[TooManyHobbies]

1922, Killingly, CT (found in '09)