Well, it looks like I can't come up with an exact example. Schenkman's book, Bimetallic Trade Tokens of the United States, pictures only about ten percent of the tokens he lists. Plus, rather than being a list by state, he lists by business name. That info, unfortunately, is almost always on the brass outer ring.
The bi-metallic token you have part of indicates Patent Applied For. An employee of token manufacturing company S. D. Childs and Co. of Chicago filed for the patent which was granted in 1899 (632,938). It is believed that even though the Childs Company made tokens stating Pat. July, 1899, that they continued to use dies saying Patent Applied For until they broke or wore out. That isn't helpful in dating when this token was made. Nor is the fact that they continued making this type of token into the 1920s. They sold their tokens all over the country.
You will note the pattern around the outside of your piece. The junction between the brass outer ring and the aluminum inner disc was stamped over by a wreath pattern in most cases. What you see is the inside half of the leaves in this wreath.
I find one more example on tokencatalog which may be a possibility. It shows the obverse side of the aluminum part to be blank. Plus, it is from Alabama, not too far from where you got this:
Holman, Alabama (Tuscaloosa County), U.S.A. [CA1] (also attributed to
Northport [CA2])
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| HOLMAN-HUGHES LUMBER CO. / GILBERT HOLMAN (in script) |
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| TC-161153; Alabama Also attributed to Northport *** Trantow listed this company incorrectly under Columbia, TN. The Holman & Hughes “Sawmill” is first found in the 1915 Sawmill Directory Of Alabama at Holman. By 1917 the Holman & Hughes “Sawmill” had moved to Northport, which is 15 miles east of Holman. This appears to have been a short-lived enterprise as they are not listed at Holman or Northport in 1914 or 1918. R7 |
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As with all tokens illustrated on tokencatalog, you can click on the thumbnail image to get an enlarged image, view other tokens with the same catalog info, and see any supplemental info that may be there.
John
