spooky weekend find

[rebelLT]

I hit an 1880’s house on Sunday. This token was found dead center in the front yard. I haven’t found or seen one like it so I did some research on the token. The front reads “Graham and Morton Lines” The back reads “The Grand Excursion Line, St Joe 50 cents, Grand Rapids $1.35” and features a steam ship in the center.

Check out the link below

http://www.michiganshipwrecks.org/chicora.htm

for “the rest of the story.

 

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[CarolinaDigs]

Great find and very good post

 

[piggman1]

Sweet token!

 

[trikikiwi]

Thanks for sharing that great find, Reb,
and many thanks for the story. I recommend to everyone who visits your post, to read it. Great history, good mystery.

and besides - Why would those letters that were found, be possible hoaxes? I wonder where they are now.
We could DNA test them

Cheers, Mike

 

[UnEarthed72]

Cool find,first steam ship token I've ever seen

 

[Giant056]

That's a mighty neat token you found there, I'm about 50 miles from Grand Rapids Mi

 

[ivan salis]

bit of history you got there ---guess one could use it to pay the ferryman on the river styx with I guess --- good for a one way passage === Ivan

 

[cottonjim]

Found a piece of history there, great story and great find. HH
Jim

 

[goldencoin]

Wow, thats a neat token.....for once, it was good for someone to loose something

HH
-GC

 

[Clad 2 meet u]

Cool Michigan History!!! That token has got to be worth quite a bit. A most excellent find indeed!!!

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

Very interesting find. The added history makes this a keeper fo sure. VPR