Montana token found, what is a skigger?

[jcooking]

Found this token today while out on a hunt. Neat token, but I can't find any information on what it is for. Anyone know what a skigger is?
Thanks and HH!

 

[creskol]

Beats the heck out of me .. No idea what a skigger is.. Darned neat old token, though. Hope we can learn something from this one!

 

[creskol]

Looks like a token in demand, though. Check out some of the pages in this search:

http://www.google.com/search?q=skig...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

 

[63bkpkr]

jcooking,
check out thetokenstore.com they have a 2 skigger for $120.00.

Seems there's an old definition and a "new" modern definition. New is a term for a gay person, why Haven't found the old one yet.

63bkpkr

 

[caveman2]

i found it check thin out!!!

http://www.thetokenstore.com/store....zeman_montana_john_m_peets_two_skiggers_token

 

[jcooking]

Wow guys, thanks a lot for the help!

 

[Mr Tuff]

sweet find!!!!! MR TUFF

 

[daroofa]

Google Books has a snippet view from a 1912 issue of "The Magazine of Business" and this is all it says...

"With a cash purchase of a dollar he gives a "skigger" or card entitling the holder to one of the wrapped-up prize packages as a premium. He stipulates that the choice of package must be made without opening it and that the contents will ..."

Thats it.

 

[jtshombre]

Always nice to see finds by a fellow Montanan, Very Cool token , I went to college in Bozo, but never heard of that place!

Happy Hunting, I think our season is coming to an end soon, snow forecast for next week...

Take care...

 

[Wldbil]

Sweet Token...

 

[creeper71]

i found it check thin out!!!

http://www.thetokenstore.com/store....zeman_montana_john_m_peets_two_skiggers_token

Not the same one.... the one in the link is for 2 skigger the one in question is for 4 skigger.... Price more then likely varies from both token.. I haven't found a 4 skigger online yet....

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

I found one site that describes it as an "unusual denom used for clothes".

http://www.tomscoin.com/tokninv/tokninv_v.html

The other describes it as follows:

Skigger...what is a Skigger(old meaning..not new.)

A Skigger was a sales promotion idea that came into use back in the early teens. Merchants would package small value merchandise (usually unsaleable items) in bags and place the bags in a barrel. With a skigger token you could select one of the bags out of the barrel...for free. Sort of...you get a prize!

 

[kuger]

I did a lot a partying in Bozo,lot of history there!!

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Very cool token! Love how the new definition of the word "skigger" is so much different from what it meant long ago.
Ya learn sumpin new every day.
Carl

 

[HISPAN]

nice token .... congrats !

 

[underdogger]

Skigger is how you say frigger with no teeth!! Nice find Rob

 

[Skelly607]

Nice token!

 

[lidigger]

Very neat find.

 

[deanv63]

sweet token

 

[CowboyKolo]

"A Skigger was a sales promotion idea that came into use back in the early teens. Merchants would package small value merchandise (usually unsaleable items) in bags and place the bags in a barrel."

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?63,1318456

So my guess is, if it was a generic term, each "skigger" was worth one such item
so a 4 skigger would get the bearer four of the "small value" items