✅ SOLVED Old Token or Miner's Tag?

[FreeBirdTim]

Found this copper token or tag at an old farm in 2019. Forget all about it until I spotted it in my collection today. Reminds me of a miner's tag, but there's no hole in it. It's the size of a quarter and very thin. Any help on the ID would be appreciated.

 

[Retired Sarge]

Don't have a clue but AI says W.S. & F.C S. stands for either......

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
Wound Fluid and Fetal Calf Serum

 

[rickertmork]

Don't have a clue but AI says W.S. & F.C S. stands for either......

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
Wound Fluid and Fetal Calf Serum

Is that really what it said or some kind of joke? I never used that thing

 

[ToddsPoint]

Wells Fargo?

 

[Red-Coat]

Hi Tim.

Given that you’re in Scituate, RI, I think this may be a token or tally from W. F. & F. C. Sayles who operated the Moshassuck Bleachery at what became Saylesville, about 50 miles from you. William F. Sayles bought a small print works plant in Lincoln, Rhode Island in 1847 and converted it into a bleachery in 1848. William was joined by his brother Frederick C. Sayles in 1863, the company then becoming W. F. and F. C. Sayles.

The brothers expanded operations, acquiring control of the Lorraine Manufacturing Company and Slater Cotton Company in Pawtucket, alongside other regional textile and dye works, ultimately becoming the largest cotton-textile bleachery and finishing operation in the world. The village location within Lincoln where the Sayles brothers bleachery operated was officially named Saylesville in 1881.

The W.F. & F.C.S partnership ended in May 1894 with the death of William. Then, in 1896, William’s son Frank A. Sayles formally bought out Frederick to reorganise the company as F. A. Sayles/Sayles Bleacheries until it was wound down in the early 20th Century.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Hi Tim.

Given that you’re in Scituate, RI, I think this may be a token or tally from W. F. & F. C. Sayles who operated the Moshassuck Bleachery at what became Saylesville, about 50 miles from you. William F. Sayles bought a small print works plant in Lincoln, Rhode Island in 1847 and converted it into a bleachery in 1848. William was joined by his brother Frederick C. Sayles in 1863, the company then becoming W. F. and F. C. Sayles.

The brothers expanded operations, acquiring control of the Lorraine Manufacturing Company and Slater Cotton Company in Pawtucket, alongside other regional textile and dye works, ultimately becoming the largest cotton-textile bleachery and finishing operation in the world. The village location within Lincoln where the Sayles brothers bleachery operated was officially named Saylesville in 1881.

The W.F. & F.C.S partnership ended in May 1894 with the death of William. Then, in 1896, William’s son Frank A. Sayles formally bought out Frederick to reorganise the company as F. A. Sayles/Sayles Bleacheries until it was wound down in the early 20th Century.

Red-Coat works the magic again! Thanks.

 

[Retired Sarge]

Is that really what it said or some kind of joke? I never used that thing

Yes it really said that, why you have to take what it comes up with, with a grain of salt. But, sometimes it can be right or point you in the right direction, or send you off on a path never to be seen again.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Wow, thank you, Red-Coat! I did find it in Lincoln, so that makes perfect sense. Not a bad find at all!

 

[Gare]

I am guessing early trade token

 

[Red-Coat]

I am guessing early trade token

It can be precisely dated between 1863 and 1894 (possibly as late as 1896) from the attribution to W. F. & F. C. Sayles.