Another local token for the collection BCCO Good for One Cup of Oysters 1887-1920.

[bonepicker]

Today I dug another first to add to the collection. Biloxi Canning Co. Good for One cup of Oysters.
Last year I started spending some time here and there trying to focus on local tokens.
Using the Sanborn maps, I have been able to locate where some of the old businesses and factories were located.
I have been hunting around these factories in areas where the workers would most likely have lived.
The strange thing about digging this one is that I was looking at Chatham's Mississippi book earlier today, and thought to myself how I would really like to dig this token. I was thinking how the design in the center kind of looked like a crab, and I was wondering if my book had it wrong. Well the book was right.
Anyhow I am pretty excited about this new addition, and just thought I would share.

 

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[bonepicker]

Possumcop me you and bp have to get together one day for a hunt. I love that Louisiana/Mississippi history.

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Count me in!!!

Sounds good to me guys. Just need to name a place and a time. Truth was fun to hunt with, and I have hoping to meet up with him again.
After reading some of your posts possum, I think it could be fun to meet up and do some hunting with you as well.
Hopefully it will begin to cool off soon in the next few weeks.
Ever since this last storm passed through it has been ridiculously hot. I don't even think august was this hot.
Or maybe we just got spoiled with all that overcast and rain cooling things off these past couple weeks.
Anyhow, we definitely should get together for a hunt soon. Maybe we will get lucky with a cool front in the near future.

 

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I don't see or try to find them here but 'that said ' Ill like a bit of Oyster with my crackers.

Y'all making me wanna hit our local Red Lobster or Seafood Restaurant.

Still love that Token BP.

Lol Davers. Not Red Lobster...….

Oh and thanks, some of my great grandparents worked in these factories, so the early seafood industry history has always been interesting to me

 

[Truth]

Lol Davers. Not Red Lobster...….

Oh and thanks, some of my great grandparents worked in these factories, so the early seafood industry history has always been interesting to me

Red Lobster lmao!!!

 

[Truth]

Bonepicker it is so humid I can’t even go outside. September is killing me!!! Next time I see you I’m gonna bring those tokens and souvenirs I got they’re interesting to see.

 

[bonepicker]

Bonepicker it is so humid I can’t even go outside. September is killing me!!! Next time I see you I’m gonna bring those tokens and souvenirs I got they’re interesting to see.

The heat has definitely been brutal. Yest I hunted a few sites and I was drenched. At 2pm I was bouncing from shade spot to shade spot, and thought I was gona black out once.
Today at work was no better.
Bring em, I should have my Louisiana book in a couple days.

 

[Truth]

The heat has definitely been brutal. Yest I hunted a few sites and I was drenched. At 2pm I was bouncing from shade spot to shade spot, and thought I was gona black out once.
Today at work was no better.
Bring em, I should have my Louisiana book in a couple days.

I will. I got to say I really really like that oyster token. I have to learn how to do like you do and research the businesses that used tokens and where the workers lived. Like I said you are the tokenpicker.

 

[Hawks88]

Beautiful token save. Congrats

 

[toasted]

Ive found lots of crop picker tokens in my area but I really would like to find a oyster packers token. Oysters used to be a staple in everyones diet around here as well as a significant part of the regions economy. That is until they were harvested to near extinction and populations have never recovered

 

[Possum]

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Sounds good to me guys. Just need to name a place and a time. Truth was fun to hunt with, and I have hoping to meet up with him again.
After reading some of your posts possum, I think it could be fun to meet up and do some hunting with you as well.
Hopefully it will begin to cool off soon in the next few weeks.
Ever since this last storm passed through it has been ridiculously hot. I don't even think august was this hot.
Or maybe we just got spoiled with all that overcast and rain cooling things off these past couple weeks.
Anyhow, we definitely should get together for a hunt soon. Maybe we will get lucky with a cool front in the near future.

I agree BP, it's been ridiculously hot so far this month. Truth and I meet before daylight and begin hunting at first light, but by 0900 we're already drenched with sweat!!! Hopefully it'll start cooling down soon and we'll set up something or somewhere to hunt, I have a few more sites I'm working on, just waiting for confirmation on permissions... "D"

 

[Possum]

Lol Davers. Not Red Lobster...….

 

[bonepicker]

Ive found lots of crop picker tokens in my area but I really would like to find a oyster packers token. Oysters used to be a staple in everyones diet around here as well as a significant part of the regions economy. That is until they were harvested to near extinction and populations have never recovered

Most of the tokens I dig from my area are seafood industry related. Most just say 1 cup due, or 1 gallon. The neat thing about this one is that it says 1 cup Oysters.
Some of my 2x great grandparents were immigrants who came here from MD for seasonal work. They decided to stay.
The industry is nothing like what it was 100 years ago. Our waters are still plentiful, but most of the industry is gone, and the waters have been over-harvested as well.
You can still get a dozen nice blue crabs for 10 or 12 dollars, and a pound of 16/20 white shrimp for about 4-5 dollars.
Oysters are plentiful, but they do have to do a lot of reef preservation an replenishing.

 

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Most of the tokens I dig from my area are seafood industry related. Most just say 1 cup due, or 1 gallon. The neat thing about this one is that it says 1 cup Oysters.
Some of my 2x great grandparents were immigrants who came here from MD for seasonal work. They decided to stay.
The industry is nothing like what it was 100 years ago. Our waters are still plentiful, but most of the industry is gone, and the waters have been over-harvested as well.
You can still get a dozen nice blue crabs for 10 or 12 dollars, and a pound of 16/20 white shrimp for about 4-5 dollars.
Oysters are plentiful, but they do have to do a lot of reef preservation an replenishing.

We paid $60 for a dozen medium blue crabs up here on Labor day weekend at a popular restaurant . Catching a dozen blue crabs in the river can be a challange these days as well. Seems easier to find old coins in the river than seafood

 

[Truth]

We paid $60 for a dozen medium blue crabs up here on Labor day weekend at a popular restaurant . Catching a dozen blue crabs in the river can be a challange these days as well. Seems easier to find old coins in the river than seafood

I remember after the BP oil spill the restaurants down tried charging $60 a dozen and I almost had a seizure...truly. Nobody got crabs we are way to spoiled.

 

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Always Fresh Blue Crabs Caught Daily... .
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$10 per Dozen
$90. per Crate ( approx. 11 to 12 Doz)
Call or Text Jim show contact info or Mary show contact info
To Order....

Just a quick craigslist search, and this is the first one I saw in a neighboring town.
I remembered seeing that MD was renowned for their blue crabs, and I heard what people paid for them and I couldn't believe it.
They are a lot cheaper down here in the deep south.

 

[Possum]

We paid $60 for a dozen medium blue crabs up here on Labor day weekend at a popular restaurant . Catching a dozen blue crabs in the river can be a challange these days as well. Seems easier to find old coins in the river than seafood

Toast,

My better half has seafood business' on the Westbank of New Orleans and she sales a dozen live "Choice" crabs for $30.00 and her medium crabs sale for $15.00 a dozen... We can't believe you're paying $60.00 a dozen for medium up there!!! Unreal brother, sorry to hear that!!!

"D"

 

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Always Fresh Blue Crabs Caught Daily... .
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$10 per Dozen
$90. per Crate ( approx. 11 to 12 Doz)
Call or Text Jim show contact info or Mary show contact info
To Order....

Just a quick craigslist search, and this is the first one I saw in a neighboring town.
I remembered seeing that MD was renowned for their blue crabs, and I heard what people paid for them and I couldn't believe it.
They are a lot cheaper down here in the deep south.

Yeah, they're Commercial fishermen and can sell their catch a lot cheaper than Amy can, heck we'd go in the hole if she sold them for that price with all the dead loss we have to account for but that's one of the perks about selling your own catch... LOL

"D"

 

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Toast,

My better half has seafood business' on the Westbank of New Orleans and she sales a dozen live "Choice" crabs for $30.00 and her medium crabs sale for $15.00 a dozen... We can't believe you're paying $60.00 a dozen for medium up there!!! Unreal brother, sorry to hear that!!!

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Im sure I could find them a bit cheaper from the seafood dealers but your going to pay a premium at the restaurants. Demand up here is so high at times that the crabs are being brought up from down your way. When I was a kid we could just dip net them off the dock pilings. Now you have to spend most of the day out on the water to get a couple dozen if your lucky

 

[Truth]

Im sure I could find them a bit cheaper from the seafood dealers but your going to pay a premium at the restaurants. Demand up here is so high at times that the crabs are being brought up from down your way. When I was a kid we could just dip net them off the dock pilings. Now you have to spend most of the day out on the water to get a couple dozen if your lucky

I love those big fat heavy females ❤️

Crabs [emoji886]

 

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I love those big fat heavy females ❤️

Crabs [emoji886]

Only the commercial guys are allowed to keep females up here. Most, including me, wont eat the females anyway.

 

[Possum]

Im sure I could find them a bit cheaper from the seafood dealers but your going to pay a premium at the restaurants. Demand up here is so high at times that the crabs are being brought up from down your way. When I was a kid we could just dip net them off the dock pilings. Now you have to spend most of the day out on the water to get a couple dozen if your lucky

Yeah, Amy was just telling me how the big commercial crabbing companies ship their crabs up north and are making a killing doing so. The small Crabbers can't afford the special state license to ship by air and they don't catch enough to have them shipped by refrigerated trucks, so the big companies are making cake and the small time crabbers are just making ends meet...

"D"