✅ SOLVED 1860 tag of some sort

[Bharpring]

Can anyone ID this 1860 tag?

 

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[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Unusual shape, but looks like the is some legible copy there. I would be tempted to try to scrape off more of the crud, gentle scotch brite type pad or the side of a wooden skewer sometimes work for me. The zoom in halfway and take a close up moist or almost dry. My guess at this point is dog tag/dog tax license. Congrats That would be a very old one.

 

[creskol]

"Na" is sodium..my guess is a chemical tag of feed tag.

 

[Bharpring]

I cleaned it up a little. It says CS Dog No. 419 1869. Anyone know what this was for? Register a dog back in 1869?

 

[1637]

it looks like they put taxes on dogs to pay for bonds,goggle the infor on to tag.
good luck brad

 

[Bharpring]

Does anyone know what the "CS" stands for?

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Huh, interesting

 

[jewelerguy]

if that's a dog tax tag, that's the oldest one I've ever seen posted and would no doubt be worth some fairly big cash to collectors

 

[creskol]

Try contacting Neil McElroy..his contact info is on this older thread: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/tokens-tags/229402-got-old-dog-tags.html

 

[diggummup]

Nice old tag. We need to find out what CS stands for. Did you find it near Savannah? CITY of SAVANNAH? CS?

 

[Bharpring]

Nice old tag. We need to find out what CS stands for. Did you find it near Savannah? CITY of SAVANNAH? CS?

Yep, it stands for City of Savannah.

 

[devldog]

"Confetrit States Dog"? Lol Nice find of the tag.

 

[1320]

Here is what may be an 1800's Savannah dog tax tag. Photo is from an ebay listing, not terribly valuable but still a great find if it is in fact a dog tax tag.

 

[Bramblefind]

Great find! That looks to be a very old dog tax tag and I think it could be quite valuable. You should email / or pm (he's a member here) Oddcoins. Here is a link -

https://www.metal-detecting-ghost-towns-of-the-east.com/got-dog-tags.html

eta here is a reference to a dog tax badge from Beaufort, SC in 1873. I think it is reasonable for Savannah to have implemented the same type of system a few years earlier than that.

 

[Bramblefind]

Try contacting Neil McElroy..his contact info is on this older thread: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/tokens-tags/229402-got-old-dog-tags.html

I replied before I saw you had already given this good advice!

 

[Bharpring]

Thanks everyone. Posted on oddcoins

 

[CRUSADER]

Thanks everyone. Posted on oddcoins

Can you update this post when you get the full details?

 

[DCMatt]

Here is a thread from a couple years ago on another detecting site that refers to 2 other 1869 'City of Savannah' dog license tags:

tag dated 1884

Please keep us posted.

 

[Yak1366]

That's amazing. Great Find!!! I'd love to know what year was the introduction for those, or any, dog tax tags. Considering that newspaper article from 1873, a dollar seems pricy for back then.

 

[Yak1366]

Great link DCMatt! Seems Fredericksburg, Va., 1853 is the earliest.