More early local seafood industry history saved from the dozers and landfill. Tokens

[bonepicker]

Been really busy lately with preparing for a new arrival in the family, which leaves me with little time to hunt.
Managed to get out yesterday and hunt one of my favorite construction sites for a couple hours before dark.
I have been attempting to find some early seafood industry tokens from this site. A few weeks ago i dug a Barataria Canning Co token here.
The town was once known as the seafood capital of the world. There were many factories and labor camps here during the early part of the 20th century.
There are lots of tokens listed in Chathams book for these factories.

I am beginning to start a collection of these early seafood industry piece work tokens.
Yesterday ended up being a good day, as i dug another one that i do not yet own.
Only a few inches below the first dozer cut was a K-L. O. & F. CO. One Gallon token. Kennedy Lopez Oyster and Fish Co. 1913-17 per Chathams book.
After a worker completed a task, such as shucking X amount of oysters, they would be given a token to exchange for cash at the end of their shift.
Also ended up with some marbles, wheaties, other not so special tokens, and an interesting anchor thing that i think might have been part of suspenders or a belt.
Any ideas on the anchor thing.
I included a photo of the factory from the 1914 Sanbornes.

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Nice saves, congratulations!

 

[against the wind]

Very cool token. Those were the days when you had to produce or you didn't eat.
Congratulations

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very cool token. Those were the days when you had to produce or you didn't eat.
Congratulations

Sadly ATW, those days are gone. Nice finds Bonepicker. I like those tokens, and marbles.

 

[pepperj]

Nice saves on the tokens and other finds.

 

[thrifty76now]

Those are really some tokens that we don't see often.

 

[digger460]

Nice recoveries

 

[Molewacker]

Nice saves on the unique Tokens!

 

[BLK HOLE]

First off congratulations on your upcoming arrival! Secondly really cool token

 

[Wannabe Treasure Hunter]

Those are great finds! Thanks for sharing and giving the rest of us here in South Mississippi some hope for good future finds...

 

[Carolina Tom]

Well done BP. I like the idea of a local token collection. Please keep us poste on your prepress.

Best of luck in 2018, and congrats on the family addition.

 

[Kurios1]

Those old tokens are super cool and in excellent condition. Very nice relic and marble scores! I always appreciate when a hunter seizes the opportunity to pounce on a construction sight. It usually produces some killer finds that will only be around during a very short window of time to grab them up. Well done. I hope there is more for you before the project is all sealed up.