Lumber company token

[etex]

Found a Good for 50 cents in merchandise/Non Transferable for Bivens Lumber co, Tally, tex.
Is in really rough shape

 

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[Mackaydon]

These folks would like to post a pic of your find: BIVENS / LUMBER COMPANY / TALLY, TEXAS / TIME STATEMENT / GOOD FOR 50C / NOT / TRANSFERABLE (TC-131323) Tally, Texas (Harrison County), U.S.A.

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The American Lumberman reported a Bivins Lumber Company sawmill at “Tally,” Harrison County, in 1906, and that it had a logging railroad and an electric light plant with 150 lights. The Handbook of Texas notes that “Tallys, Texas, in southwestern Harrison County,” had been established by 1884 as a stop on the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad. By 1930, only scattered homes were in the area.

Don.....

 

[intimer]

would like to ask what wording you can make out on the token.

I suspect (could be wrong) this could be trantow catalog TX3409 unlisted A50; I suspect this because the tokencatalog listing is cardboard orange. and blank on the reverse, as is the B series in Trantow.

Trantow A10 listing reads bivens lumber /co./tally, tex.//good for/10¢/in.merchandise/not transferable. the // indicates start of reverse end of obverse detai.
(I suspect your 50¢ reads the same detail.)

so, comparing your token to see if reads company or co. would be good place to start. note it's not blank on the reverse.
I have the 10¢ and a poor condition 5¢ if you want to see to help compare.... I may have the cdbd B series but may have sold them, as I don't collect the cardboard tokens.

to bad the condition, but still of interest when you don't have one.

mike w.

 

[etex]

It is like the 10 cent aluminum one listed in the token catalog except is for 50 cents, doesn't say time statement like the cardboard ones