✅ SOLVED old copper tag

[ScubaDad]

Found this in a yard (50's-60's built home) ... I think I've seen one of these long ago but not too sure ... if anyone has any info I'd appreciate it. BTW - this street doesn't even exist in St. Paul anymore and I called all Bellinger's in MN and no one knows who this would have been...

I know it's old enough that there isn't even a zipcode listed



Thanks in advance

J

 

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[cambria09]

Hello Scuba Dad. I think these were pretty common back in the day for the return of lost keys. Here is one we found for a hotel in White Springs FL c1920. Still haven't figured out who A. W. Raley was. Maybe he was the desk clerk at the hotel. Nice find and HH. C9

 

[ScubaDad]

Thanks C9 ... figured it to be for keys or such ... wish mine had a year on the back it doesn't ... HH

J

 

[Bramblefind]

This is from the 1926 St. Paul directory-

In 1927 "Chas V. Bellinger" is listed at 56 Summit Ave. In 1914 though he is listed under the "V"s as last name "Van Bellinger" living at 356 Van Slyke Ct.

There is a Charles Van Bellinger (last name indexed "Vanbellinger") record in the WWI Draft Registrations - he says he was born 6/21/1886 and is single and occupied as a brakeman for the Great Northern RR in Willmar, MN.