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tymcmurray
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Sorry! I have hunted and hunted and can find nothing on your token.
It is a nice one.
The only tokens I ever find are modern.
It is a nice one.
The only tokens I ever find are modern.
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Tokens Of The Gay(Good spirited) Nineties (1890-1900)
Trade tokens, store cards and medalets which record an Age of Carefree Innocence in a self-satisfied America. The tokens include mementoes for nickel beers, nickel cigars, band concerts in the park, reunions of the Grand Army of the Republic, bustles and bowler hats, and the dawn of American imperialism with quick victory in the Spanish-American War of 1898.
The trade check, or "good for," started coming into its own in the 1866-1889 period, but the 1890-1900 period saw issues of trade checks increase dramatically. The commercial introduction of aluminum to token manufacture about 1891 accelerated an already swelling tide of trade checks. Now every general store, saloon, pool hall, milk deliverer, baker and amusement park had to have its own issue. Also a special class of tokens, those of the "Junior Republics" - schools and living sites for boys, began to be issued in the Nineties. This is Half of the ID. I cannot find the token you have posted....Ron
Trade tokens, store cards and medalets which record an Age of Carefree Innocence in a self-satisfied America. The tokens include mementoes for nickel beers, nickel cigars, band concerts in the park, reunions of the Grand Army of the Republic, bustles and bowler hats, and the dawn of American imperialism with quick victory in the Spanish-American War of 1898.
The trade check, or "good for," started coming into its own in the 1866-1889 period, but the 1890-1900 period saw issues of trade checks increase dramatically. The commercial introduction of aluminum to token manufacture about 1891 accelerated an already swelling tide of trade checks. Now every general store, saloon, pool hall, milk deliverer, baker and amusement park had to have its own issue. Also a special class of tokens, those of the "Junior Republics" - schools and living sites for boys, began to be issued in the Nineties. This is Half of the ID. I cannot find the token you have posted....Ron
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