Railroad Tag and two old buttons

[smokedaddy]

Found these while I was hitting an open field today. The railroad tag is copper and reads the following.

" M. DARLINTONS'S SON'S
AVONDALE STA.
P & B & W R.R. PA.

One of the buttons looks to be Colonial hand carved flower motif. The other is a brass or copper.

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Nice Tag!! I found one a lot like it from the W,O & D Railroad in Northern Virgina.. is this a name tag for luggage?? Any idea?

MonkeyBoy

 

[lonewolfe]

Excellent

HH

 

[smokedaddy]

Monkey Boy- I think that these tags were secured to wooden freight boxes for shipping. That would be my best theory anyway.

 

[seger98]

Hey that's some really neat stuff. WTG

 

[tymcmurray]

Nice buttons. All of mine are plane, so far.

 

[Merf]

Neat finds

 

[redlined]

Nice finds. I've found two railroad tags at a spot I hunt. I know the ones I found were used on cattle when they were sent to market, when loading them on railcars were the norm. Mine had the names of the senders and the name of a stockyard that was located about 50 miles away. A little research confirmed that the stockyard in question closed during the early 60's

 

[allen]

those are neat finds...