Interesting find - Old Calendar token - Help Id year, people on it

[coinshooter]

Found this today in an old grove of 100 yr old palm trees.
I was wondering if there are any historians out there that could put a name
to these two faces.
Maybe they are the guys who invented this calendar token.
ANyone have any ideas on how to find what the date/age of this fob might be?

 

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[WildDigger]

Cool find. I am hoping to find out what they say about it too. Congrats.

 

[Erik in NJ]

You should post this on the "What Is It?" forum...nice find!

 

[DocBeav]

Pretty neat item! Here is a link about calendar tokens from the UK. Maybe someone there can help as well....

Token Corresponding Society - Calendar Medals

 

[coinshooter]

Thanks, that was interesting.
Mine appears to be a two month (one on each side), calendar token.
Weird, but maybe this covers more time, but I just don't know how to deciper it.
Well, at least I have found out it is a calendar medal.

 

[Wildcat1750]

Nice calendar token, coinshooter. Never seen anything like it.
Nick

 

[coinshooter]

Judging by what ebay sells these old ones for, this could be a $100-$250 find (not that I would sell it), but it is always nice to know when something you found has some value. That surprised me. Hope to find out who the two old cronies on the medal are eventually. I suspect they may be two of the medal inventors. At one point these were used in England and then flipped to the US as a novelty piece. My guess is this is about 100 yrs old based on where it was found.

 

[Mackaydon]

I was thinking presidential and vice-presidential candidates.

 

[davehky]

That token is so awesome! I love it! Great find...

 

[coinshooter]

I was thinking presidential and vice-presidential candidates.

I looked through all presidents and VP's.
None match these two.
I suspect it may be the folks listed on the website posted above that are the fathers of calendar medals.