A "JAMES E. PEPPER" token ----

[Ron B]

A "JAMES E. PEPPER" token ----

Today, I had decided to take off; thinking I needed a day's rest from swinging. However, the wife wanted to go to Pueblo and more or less implied she'd rather go it alone SO, what's a boy suppose to do?

I went to the local park; the one that's been hit hard by everybody in the world but still managed to find two tokens! The one not shown is bent and made of aluminum; it's really not worth seeing anyway. This token/pendant says "Established 1780". The three figures on the face appear military to me. I wonder, was James E. Pepper a school of some sort? I'll Google and see what I can find.

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Google results! James E Pepper was a prominent whiskey maker in the early 1800s from Lexington, Kentucky!
How about that! Cheers Mr. Pepper!

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I just noticed above the date on the face is an inscription: "Born with the Republic". Cool!

Thank you for your interest!
GRB

 

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[FloridaBill]

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Thats a cool find and who wants to go there anyway..

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

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Nice find! I dug one a while ago, and someone in the club I belong to told me that the token would be attached to the bottle of whiskey. Yours is in much better condition. Good stuff!
CurbdiggerCarl

 

[bootybay]

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Grb,
cool looking token, I guess hence the hole in it..if it was attached to a bottle..still neat to me thou.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

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The Pepper Family
James E. Pepper was the last in a long line of distillers. His grandfather was Elijah Pepper, born in Virginia and an early Kentucky settler. His father was Oscar Pepper, who had the good sense to employ Dr. James C. Crow as his master distiller, bringing fame to the Old Crow and Old Pepper brands, and fortune to the Pepper family. After Oscar's death in 1867, James ran the Versailles distillery for a few years before selling it to E. H. Taylor. James then moved to New York, but returned in 1879 to build a new distillery in Lexington. One of the unique features of the site was a seemingly inexhaustible spring. The distillery's pumps drew water from it at a rate of 700 gallons a minute and it never went dry. James put his name on the label of his bourbon and used the famous slogan "Born With The Republic" along with the trademark "Old 1776." James died in 1908 and the family sold the distillery and brands. James E. Pepper Bourbon was brought back after Prohibition but discontinued in 1960. United Distillers re-established it 1994 but only sells it outside the USA.

 

[Nana40]

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I love to find old tokens as much as old coins. That's a nice one, Roy! 8)

Congrats! Nana

 

[Ron B]

Re: A "JAMES E. PEPPER" token ----

Hello Everyone!
Thanks for the information; it's a pretty neat token! I've been pretty lucky, finding tokens that is. I'm thinking of building or buying a display which I can hang on the wall so I can gander a token anytime I wish!

GRB

 

[Sky_Warrior]

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is that token worth anything i have a perfect condition one.....no grime