Found this fob yesterday...

[Shawano~]

Found this yesterday at an old farm house. I thought it was a dog tag, but a good friend of mine, said that dog tags don't have the slot like this. He thinks it is a hotel key fob or something like that... Any ideas?

 

[PBK]

Dog tag.

As posted in What Is It?...

I believe that it's a dog license tag issued in 1910. Bone's book on tags indicates that Ross, Michigan first began issuing them in 1901. Although less common, there were slotted dog license tags, and you can see a couple of examples at:

http://www.doglicense.org/tagFilesMain.php

 

[tomharris76]

There was a Ross hotel in Laredo Texas 1909-1910. I think PBK hit it on the head.

 

[briankb70]

nice dog tag

 

[Damon64]

Looks like a baggage tag. Must be from the hotel mentioned or possibly a railroad nearby?

 

[allen]

anything on the backside
that might help us id it ?

 

[Nick A]

I'm for dog license. Looks like these were hand stamped on stock blanks which could have been used for luggage tags, etc. Why would a hotel tag or luggage tag have a date? The date for me is the giveaway that it is probably a dog license.

 

[silverfreak]

Thats a sweet find shawano

 

[TommNJ]

Nice dog tag and it looks like the ground took good care of it for you !

Tom

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

What size is it?

 

[crazyjarhead]

I'm for dog tag too