Street tear out... nice Bar token.

[DW Dirt Whisperer]

Went back to the street tear out. Found a couple more centavos 1895 and an 1893, but I love this Brunswick balke bar token. They made a bunch of them for alot places. I saw online trying to research. This one is for a bar that was here in El Paso called the vault. Don't know how much of the token you can see. Its the crusted of in the upper right of the first pic. Enjoy.

 

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[trapperart]

Nice finds congrats

 

[diggingthe1]

Street tear outs are great, I would be back at it!! Nice coins!!

 

[Texas Ed]

Congrats on your Brunswick bar token & centavos - I guess the hole in the token was for a string - anyway thanks for sharing your pictures and story of your finds and I wish you many more while out dirt fishing.

Texas ED

 

[ScubaDetector]

A nice old place to hunt for sure. Most states have a token collector or two. Is yours rare?

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice job on the Brunswick token. If the saloon put a Brunswick table in their place, they were given tokens to give out. Some of the tokens were even inscribed with the bars name on it. Some just said Brunswick. I have dug a few of each. I found most of mine in farm fields near small towns.

 

[DW Dirt Whisperer]

A nice old place to hunt for sure. Most states have a token collector or two. Is yours rare?

I don't know if it's rare. Still doing the research.

 

[idahotokens]

Nice Brunswick token! It was listed in the 1979 Texas "Supplement" to the Journal of the Token and Medal Society, Rulau's United States Tokens, and another example is pictured on tokencatalog.com. It is indeed rare - most Brunswick tokens command a premium among token collectors, but self-identified ones (tells the town and state on it) are very desirable. Die studies of Brunswick tokens date this one 1888-92.
John in the Great 208

 

[DW Dirt Whisperer]

Nice Brunswick token! It was listed in the 1979 Texas "Supplement" to the Journal of the Token and Medal Society, Rulau's United States Tokens, and another example is pictured on tokencatalog.com. It is indeed rare - most Brunswick tokens command a premium among token collectors, but self-identified ones (tells the town and state on it) are very desirable. Die studies of Brunswick tokens date this one 1888-92.
John in the Great 208

That's awesome. Thank you so much for the info. i sure do appreciate it.

 

[romeo-1]

Nice finds...well done!

 

[Tommy G]

Love the token! Thanks for sharing.

 

[idahotokens]

The 27 Jan 1912 issue of the El Paso Herald newspaper said that "H. R. Hillebrand conducted the Vault Saloon in 1882 and soon thereafter McKelligan succeeded him. The saloon was called the Vault, and sold nothing but lager beer. Beer then cost two bits a glass, but McKelligan reduced the price to ten cents straight." The 1885 El Paso business directory shows the Vault Saloon was conducted by M. J. McKelligan at 4 E. San Antonio Street.
John