1928 Mew York Chauffeur License

[relicmeister]

Found at cellar hole in northwest New Jersey.
Only one I’ve ever found

 

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[Steuss]

I read the title, and was excited to see a license for a cat chauffeur.

Very cool find nonetheless.

 

[vpnavy]

Always love finding other similar

member finds...

Here is one found by my buddy Joe G. during our hunt in Brooklyn, NY - Cool!

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[Rookster]

Very nice

 

[cudamark]

Always love finding other similar

member finds...

Here is one found by my buddy Joe G. during our hunt in Brooklyn, NY - Cool!

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Wow, did they really issue almost 300,000 of those?

 

[Iron Buzz]

Wow, did they really issue almost 300,000 of those?

At LEAST 300,000. I wonder if a chauffeur's license was also required by cabbies and maybe even bus drivers?

 

[cudamark]

Even if there were 12 million people in the state then, That would be one license for every 40 people. Just seems like a lot to me.

 

[A2coins]

That's a really cool piece I want one in my bucket

 

[Iron Buzz]

That's a really cool piece I want one in my bucket

My two main detecting buddies each have one from Minnesota. I was there when one of them found his in a field that once held a one room country school. No such luck here, though.

 

[Relic Ron]

Very nice piece of history.....My first Chauffeur badge I found here in Texas was a 1920 New York. Here is a link with a little info on badges.

NEW YORK - Badge News

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

A Fantastic find !

 

[Capncrunch]

Awesome find! I am from the KC Missouri area and hunted an old friend's mother's yard a few weeks back. She said her (dead) husband had hunted it extensively, but I thought what the heck, newer tech might find something...
I found a few coins, some toy cars and this!
This one's from 1940. I know it's not NYC or ANY big city, but maybe that's even rarer to find?

 

[Jon Stewart]

Found one in New Mexico for a New Mexico taxi a few years back while looking for arrowheads. It was laying on top of the desert ground.

 

[michael NY]

They are neat finds congradulations, I found 4 total gave one away over the years. They came from the same park Dates are 1928 1926 and 1914