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

Aw man I grew up as a little boy off of crab fat and crackers

 

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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...

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Thinking about bringing the 6” to Biloxi tomorrow. I gotta get out this house.

 

[washingtonian]

That is cool, never heard of an oyster token before!!

 

[park pirate]

Sweet token brother...

 

[Trezurehunter]

Thats a great looking token. Congrats on adding to your "local" collection.