✅ SOLVED Old luggage tag maybe?

[postalgriff]

Found this at a park near railroad tracks. I've found the exact size and shape as an old dog tax tag but this is obviously something different. Maybe post office? Thanks for any help...

 

[Spats]

Maybe the Pennsylvania Department of Education had an umbrella check system?

 

[cudamark]

Maybe the Pennsylvania Department of Education had an umbrella check system?

Maybe for umbrellas issued to crossing guards?

 

[postalgriff]

Maybe the Pennsylvania Department of Education had an umbrella check system?

great idea there spats appreciate your idea. I checked and see the Pennsylvania department of education didn't have that name until 1969 though, and I think the tag is older than that. I think you're right about it being a check tag for an umbrella though, maybe the post office or police department ...thanks guys for your input.

 

[bradyboy]

watch fob?

 

[MountainDewed]

This is similar, maybe a clue of sorts?

E-TRAC | Minelab Treasure Metal Detector

 

[DCMetal]

Railroad baggage tag.

 

[postalgriff]

Railroad baggage tag.

That was my original thought too, but I couldn't find the abbreviation anywhere looking through the railroad database. Also, why would it say umbrella on it?

 

[Bramblefind]

I found this reference that tags were issued by self-check umbrella stands so that you could leave your umbrella at the front of a public building. There must be a photo somewhere of one of these stands but I haven't found it yet-

https://archive.org/stream/catalystteachersf00kuhnrich/catalystteachersf00kuhnrich_djvu.txt

c. 1925

So we took the big red Ellsworth Street
train and we went to Berkeley, to Wheeler Hall. She had some
business there. I saw her put her umbrella in this little stand
and pull out a bronze umbrella tag, which I thought was a
marvelous invention.

Here is a find of a number of umbrella tags posted on the site:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/330805-need-info-winthrop-beach-casino-tags.html

and here is an umbrella tag for a hotel-

BRASS LOGAN HOUSE RAILROAD HOTEL UMBRELLA TAG ALTOONA PA PRR RARE 1800s (02/18/2013)

The Tag Town site mentions them -

Baggage Check Daters

Without going too much into other forms of transpiration ships (using large color coded cardstock and celluloid), airlines some other types of brass checks are:

Umbrella Checks
Golf Checks
Bicycle rental Checks (I've got them!)
Garage Checks (for parking?)
State Fair Agricultural tags (Cow tags)
Bus
Steamboat Parcels

 

[etex]

Also, transfer line tags, they took baggage from the rr depot to hotels or to your home

 

[postalgriff]

I found this reference that tags were issued by self-check umbrella stands so that you could leave your umbrella at the front of a public building. There must be a photo somewhere of one of these stands but I haven't found it yet-

https://archive.org/stream/catalystteachersf00kuhnrich/catalystteachersf00kuhnrich_djvu.txt

c. 1925

So we took the big red Ellsworth Street
train and we went to Berkeley, to Wheeler Hall. She had some
business there. I saw her put her umbrella in this little stand
and pull out a bronze umbrella tag, which I thought was a
marvelous invention.

Here is a find of a number of umbrella tags posted on the site:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/330805-need-info-winthrop-beach-casino-tags.html

and here is an umbrella tag for a hotel-

BRASS LOGAN HOUSE RAILROAD HOTEL UMBRELLA TAG ALTOONA PA PRR RARE 1800s (02/18/2013)

The Tag Town site mentions them -

Baggage Check Daters

Without going too much into other forms of transpiration ships (using large color coded cardstock and celluloid), airlines some other types of brass checks are:

Umbrella Checks
Golf Checks
Bicycle rental Checks (I've got them!)
Garage Checks (for parking?)
State Fair Agricultural tags (Cow tags)
Bus
Steamboat Parcels

Bramblefind...that is a ton of info, thank you very much for taking the time to research that! Well done!, I'm marking this one solved.

 

[sutphin]

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