awesome local token and dog tag
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Nice finds! Dog tags are cool. Strange yours didn't have a date on it, all mine have a date.
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Hi, wow nice finds. Congrats. i love the dog tag. 
The date is probably worn off
The date is probably worn off
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Nice finds! 
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Ulysses s Grant cracker jack token
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Lumber token of the early 1900s
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Your Burgess Drug Co. token is similar to this one:
https://tokencatalog.com/token_reco...045&inventory_id=583692&attribution_id=537960
The Cumberland Drug Co. was active around 1915; perhaps indicative of the era of your token.
Don......
https://tokencatalog.com/token_reco...045&inventory_id=583692&attribution_id=537960
The Cumberland Drug Co. was active around 1915; perhaps indicative of the era of your token.
Don......
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Nice finds, congrats!!
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Burgess was G. H. Burgess; as noted in The Era Druggiest Directory of 1911 (15th Edition) as found on page 146 (under Waxhaw) here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=V...#v=onepage&q=waxhaw nc "Burgess Drug"&f=false
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https://books.google.com/books?id=V...#v=onepage&q=waxhaw nc "Burgess Drug"&f=false
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Adding: George Henry Burgess was a medical doctor in the Waxhaw community. He was born April 3, 1862; died October 25, 1945.
Source: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/union/bibles/sbillue1.txt
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Source: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/union/bibles/sbillue1.txt
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While I'm at it...........
Burgess lived at 201 McKibben Street after 1910. He was know as a physician and editorof the Waxhaw Enterprise; a local newspaper.
Source: (page 56 here; Item 93): http://www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/nr/un0828.pdf
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Burgess lived at 201 McKibben Street after 1910. He was know as a physician and editorof the Waxhaw Enterprise; a local newspaper.
Source: (page 56 here; Item 93): http://www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/nr/un0828.pdf
Don.....
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2 real nice saves. Congrats
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