Old Dog Tag? Hope So. . .

SaginawIan · Oct 26, 2008

If so would be the first one I've found. I suppose it could be a tag for anything though . . .

Ian

trikikiwi · Oct 26, 2008

Nice find Ian.
I don't think it is a military dog tag, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_tags
or a tag for a dog, which I am sure would have the local council name on it.

Gut feeling is that it was attached to a key.

Do I read H. E. Allison or, ?. F. Allison ?
also what is the small lettering on the other side? I can't quite make it out 8)

Mike

Mackaydon · Oct 26, 2008

Reverse lettering also looks like "Allison"

trikikiwi · Oct 26, 2008

Mackaydon said:
Reverse lettering also looks like "Allison"

I think you are correct

Good eyesight :thumbsup:

BuckleBoy · Oct 27, 2008

Odd combination of name and date...

If it was tool check, luggage tag, etc, it'd just have a number and not a date... If dog tax, then a city, town, township, county, or state--plus a number and date.

That's an interesting tag.

First thing I'd do if it were my find would be go through the deeds and look for an Allison listed.

-Buckles

woody50 · Oct 27, 2008

I tend to think also a key tag. Don't know if Allison is a hotel for instance, it could also be a personal key tag for a tool box key or something like that. Myself I cannot see a first letter, but the second, when you brighten up the photo a bit looks to me like an 'E'. On second thought or view I do now see a 'H' so it would be H.E. Allison....

DCMatt · Oct 27, 2008

trikikiwi said:
Nice find Ian.
I don't think it is a military dog tag, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_tags
or a tag for a dog, which I am sure would have the local council name on it.

Gut feeling is that it was attached to a key.

Do I read H. E. Allison or, ?. F. Allison ?
also what is the small lettering on the other side? I can't quite make it out 8)

Mike

I see H. E. Allison, too.
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From the New York Times:

ALBANY, May 22, 1889--Dr. Henry E. Allison, first assistant at Willard Asylum since 1878, was appointed Medical Superintendent of the NewYork State Asylum for Insane Criminals at Auburn...
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However, I think it's a tool check tag... I don't think the 1872 number is a date - just coincidence.

DCMatt

Marc(NB) · Oct 27, 2008

could it be a mining tag? :icon_scratch:

DD-777 · Oct 27, 2008

Allison Transmissions (?) :dontknow:

Monty · Oct 27, 2008

Possibly had a key attached for room 44 at the Allison hotel? Monty

auger · Oct 27, 2008

Possibly a key tag for an Allison tractor? I know they made farm equipment in conjunction with Fergeson, Chalmers, Ford and probably others. A '44 tractor ser#1872? I'm just guessing, not suggesting this as being factual.

jgowans · Oct 27, 2008

There is propbably an inmate still locked up at the asylum since Henry lost the key......

Evolution · Oct 29, 2008

JG_in_NC said:
There is propbably an inmate still locked up at the asylum since Henry lost the key......

I agree. This is clearly a very old case of "lock him up and throw away the key".

You happened to find the key (or at least the key tag). :thumbsup:

How nice for you. :icon_sunny:

bradyboy · Oct 30, 2008

Tool tag?
Brady

NGE · Oct 31, 2008

Swimming tag? NGE (T)

kakcsdad · Nov 4, 2008

i would think it is a key tag that may have had a pull chain to keep it attached to the key

mrjosh · Nov 4, 2008

Dont think its related to a tractor company. Most older tractors did not use a key. They were either started by a crank or pully and ones that had electircal systems were mearly a push switch.