Help with Token ID

[Cherryman68]

I have tried to research this through the net but have yet to come up with anything. Can any of you Token experts please tell me what this is and how rare.

Front:
J. zagar
417
n. 6th st.
K:C.K.

Back:
Good for 5 in trade

Thanks!
Michael

 

[Mackaydon]

Veterans Of Foreign Wars
417 N 6th St
Kansas City, KS
(913) 321-9047
You may wish to contact them about the former tenant. Mr. Zager, in that building.

 

[nova]

Great job Mackaydon another token mystery solved. Thanks again for helping me with mine.BFL&CO
from Ogden,Utah.

 

[Mackaydon]

My pleasure; I enjoy doing the research (the 'hunt') and the history learned (one of the 'rewards').
Don.....

 

[idahotokens]

John Zagar is listed in the 1938 Polk's City Directory for Kansas City, MO as a tailor at 417 N. 6th Street, and in the 1947-48 directory as beer at that same address. I imagine that he wasn't making enough money in the tailor business, so he converted the storefront to a tavern. If you plug the address into Google Street View, there is a nice photo of the intersection where his business was. There is one tavern-looking building there that might be it (now called Fat Matt's Vortex) or a couple of vacant lots.

The piece is not listed in Waken's KS book and I don't have the more recent KS book by Glass & O'Connor to see if it is there. Most tokens from big cities don't command much of a premium, so I would guess this would sell for $10 at the most on ePay.

John in ID

 

[nova]

Idaho, you also deserve a BIG THANKS for all your knowledge on tokens. It's much appreciative.

 

[Cherryman68]

Thank you guys so much for the information. I also enjoy the history behind these old jewels. I can't believe you found it so quickly I looked for a couple of weeks before asking, but I guess I didn't know where to look.

I do not collect Tokens so if any one wants to trade this and a Missouri red tax token just PM me.

The only token I keep is the first one I ever found, an aluminum Colgate-pomolive-Pitts buy 3 get 2 free token.

Again thanks so much for the info!

HH
Michael

 

[allen]

you guys are awesome at doing the research
for the tokens that are posted !