real cool shaped token and 3 more wheats

[Goes4ever]

found mostly modern clad coins today, but managed to get 3 wheats 1945, 1938, 1929 (up to 71 for the season) and a real neat shaped token. Good for 5 cents, first one like that I have saw.

 

[Goes4ever]

no real big towns here, possibly Lima Ohio Or Fort Wayne Indiana

 

[Detectingfreak]

Very nice job on the token!

 

[crazyjarhead]

Nice token and nice wheats

 

[CRUSADER]

With a token that shape, they should be the Cloud Bros.

 

[plumloko]

Nice finds...Great Token!
It looks to be aluminum and if that is the case it was most likely made after 1892, before this time aluminum was considered a valuable metal.
And since it is incused it was most likely made before 1910.
Congrats!
P.S. that shape would be called 8 scallop.

 

[Goes4ever]

it is brass or copper

 

[nova]

Very cool token.

 

[STH69]

Very nice

 

[allen]

sweet token and wheaties..

 

[treasurefiend]

Sweet finds bro!!!

 

[Likely Guy]

"From the St. Paul, Minnesota City Directories:
1905: Not listed
1906: Bayless, Charles D. r. 166 W. 5th. All family members live at this same address. Hattie E., clerk, Rex L., lab, Verni, press feeder H.L. Collins Co., William L. lab.
1907: Bayless, Annie E., clerk, Clous Bros. , h 330 W. 6th. Same address for all family members. Charles D. pharmacist, Hattie E. clerk, Rex L., lab, Verni C., clerk, William L., lab."

Source: http://virts.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nvjack/beede/data/b19599.htm

 

[Goes4ever]

so do you think the token is originally from St. Paul, Minnesota?

 

[Likely Guy]

Oh no. Sorry, didn't mean to insinuate that. Just throwing out possibilities, but it was a 'likely' Google hit.

Still researching.

 

[idahotokens]

I'd suggest it is from brothers Bernard and George Clous' cigar store on Main Street in Paulding, OH, ca. 1910. I'll run it by the OH token cataloguer to see what he says.
John in ID

 

[Goes4ever]

I'd suggest it is from brothers Bernard and George Clous' cigar store on Main Street in Paulding, OH, ca. 1910. I'll run it by the OH token cataloguer to see what he says.
John in ID

hey that sounds more like it! Paulding, Ohio is about 20 miles north of me. Let me know what you find out!

 

[idahotokens]

The OH token cataloguer says it looks like a solid attribution to Paulding to him. I did some more searching and the Clous brothers were "day laborers" in 1900 and I could not find them in 1920, so the date of 1910 plus or minus a few years looks good.
John in ID

 

[Goes4ever]

how do you find this info? I did google searches and cannot find anything at all about the clous bros, or their store......

 

[silverfreak]

That token would have made my day G-4

 

[idahotokens]

Researching trade tokens is, believe it or not, pretty closely related to genealogy. I use a couple of subscription services to look at Census, newspaper, city directory, marriage, death, and other sorts of information. Google has a lot of stuff, but hasn't gotten too far into genealogy yet. Yet is the operative word. I just heard a news article that Google is wanting to digitize every book ever printed. I assume that means the ones for which copyrights are expired, but you never can tell.
John in ID