Cant remember if I posted this and still a mystery

[Rockhoppernc]

Can't remember if I posted this and still a mystery

Found this in Downtown Asheville Nc.
I have contacted the parks gift department, the original owners of the parks family, and facebook and none has ever seen another one like it. Thought it could be a workers chit tag but I sent an email to the retired engineer when the bridge was built and he did not recognize it.
So as it stands 1 of 1 in my book.

What do you guys think?

 

[jewelerguy]

yes, you posted it some time back. to me, it's got that late 40's look about it. I think it's from a souvenir key chain

 

[Rockhoppernc]

Thought that as well.
got this from the parks facebook page...


Royal Gorge Bridge & Park
February 25

Does anyone recognize this? Brian Weller found this really cool piece in Asheville NC while metal detecting. We don't recognize it as something we've sold in the gift shop (within the last 40 years at least) and do not know when it was made or what it was used for.
got lots of ideas but nothing as of yet.

 

[Mackaydon]

Looks like a 'homemade' item.
Don....

 

[Rockhoppernc]

I don't know about homemade - it is perfect, no tool/stamp marks.
I love a good mystery.

 

[releventchair]

Seems to either predate the machine pressed penny into souvenir, that or very early form, or a competitor from a cottage industry. Looked for royal gorge rail token also but nope.
Elongated cents go back a ways but none I see have wavy edges.Some bigger pennies in eighteen hundreds.l.o.l..

 

[Rockhoppernc]

Someone posted this on the FB page.
Doesn't resemble any RG trinkets I have collected over the years. Definitely not my smashed pennies unless they smashed 3-5 together at a time and punched a hole through it..

 

[idahotokens]

That sure looks like a souvenir of the Royal Gorge in Colorado to me.
John in the Great 208

 

[mirage83]

Thought I had found the same type of tag on Google... not only was it the same type, it was actually yours. But aside from that, I got nothin'.

 

[park pirate]

Nice find..

 

[Argentium]

I agree with both jewelerguy and idahotokens , it does look like a 40's/ 50's tourist shop key chain item , and it is most likely depicts
the Royal Gorge in Colorado . Interesting find .