Temperence & a Bar token from same site

[Prairie Prowler]

Temperence & a Bar token from same site

Found these two at an old town site ..Temperence token still has some gilt on it .. it is the size of a half dollar .Does any body know the approximate date of the temperence token? Thanks for looking.

 

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[Bramblefind]

Re: Temperence & a Bar token from same site

That is really cool!

Do you think this matches the Temperance token?

http://www.exonumia.com/sale11/allb.htm

1449. NY Old Oaken Bucket Temperance Medals, 1841. The origin of these medals was not known until Spencer Radnich published a twenty-eight page paper on them in the Oct. 2004 TAMS Journal. They were issued by Ashbel Wells Ridley of Rochester, New York, who was General in the New York State Militia. The dies were cut by Bale and Smith. Temperance slogan in very small letters around man drawing water from a well using the "old oaken bucket" (hence the name of the medal) / "I Pledge to Use No Intoxicating Drink as a Beverage" around "Temperance Leads to Health, Wealth, Happiness and Long Life, A. W. R." Not in Rulau. Three pieces, 24 mm, gilt copper or gilt brass. XF to Uncirculated. $30.00-35.00+

The bar token is great!

 

[Mackaydon]

Re: Temperence & a Bar token from same site

Re: Thomas O'Brien/Chas. Pick and Co token:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...k_amp_co_token_rare+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Charles Pick and Co. was the bar supplier; Thomas O'Brien was probably the owner of the bar.
Don....

 

[Mackaydon]

Re: Temperence & a Bar token from same site

The words written on the obverse of the Oaken Bucket medal are from the poem "The Old Oaken Bucket" written by Samual Woodworth.
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1243/

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Re: Temperence & a Bar token from same site

Approximate date for the Chas, Pick &Co., 1878-1892.
Oh, the irony!
Carl