My oldest dog license tag

[Papa Bear]

Dug last month. Caused quite a stir. Apparently the oldest one known prior to this was 1940.

 

[silver john]

Never would have believed that they registered dogs that early. My oldest find in NY is a 1964 tag.

 

[Gridwalker306]

Cool tag! You have me beat by a few years

 

[Deerhunter24]

I have a 1930 tag from Michigan. 1900 though...earliest one I've seen. Mine actually says Dog License. Yours says Dog Tax. I find that interesting as they were probably referred to as a Tax first. But the word TAX has so many negative connotations that probably decided to change the word to LICENSE. Ha.

Great Find.

 

[Carolina Tom]

I got a 1935 rabies vaccine tag... but yours is cooler and way older than mine.

I like it!

 

[relic lover]

Never would have believed that they registered dogs that early. My oldest find in NY is a 1964 tag.

The oldest one I've ever seen posted here was from the 1880s I can't remember where it was from though

 

[Trezurehunter]

Thats a great find. I like those old dog tax tags.

 

[clenell]

lol, and i thought i was the only person that found dog tags!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

love old dog tags. If yours is the "oldest known for that location", then perhaps it has collector value ?