Let's see your exonumia!

LOL. We must have been following the same breadcrumbs. I spent an hour over at Ernie's table and picked up a lot of stuff. Likewise, I spent about 2 hours at Steve's too. Among the pickups from Hayden was a Flanagan's Punch. Like yours, it hails from Steve Tanenbaum's Collection and is struck on a 1789 Mexico 2 Real.



Cheetah

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

Nice Flanagan's counterstamp Cheetah. I have an example in my collection that I bought from Hayden a year or so ago but with no provenance. I also picked up one of his struck tokens a while back from Tom Logan, a local dealer I see at shows once in awhile. A nice companion piece to the counterstamp. BTW, I saw your trail of breadcrumbs...didn't know what it meant at the time.

Bruce

 

Thanks Bruce. There were several other dealers there at the show that also had nice stuff. Rick Gross had a nice table at the back, up along the same wall from Ernie.

In case you're interested, here's a link to an article I wrote about Wood's Minstrels; the origins of the troupe, etc. The struck piece I acquired from Hayden about two years ago; the 2 real piece from a guy who lives in Staunton VA. He said it was passed down from his great...great... grandfather.

 

Thanks for the link Cheetah. I knew a bit about the history of Wood's enterprise but your article is outstanding and informative Great job and very nice tokens.

Bruce

 

Here's my example from the Baltimore show. Just took the picture this morning.

Bruce

 

Picked up a roll of #MO910Ha yesterday. Circulated, but couldn't resit the price.

 

Here's another Balto pickup from my Friday trip down there. Danish counterstamps are very rare as a group with only about thirty issuers documented. This is one of the more common ones but still a nice find for me.
Allan Dahl lived between 1826 and 1896 in Copenhagen and was, apparently, in the advertising business in that city. His company had the rather awkward name of The Bureau for Permanent Advertisement and was located at 26 Trollesgade. What exactly the company did is not known to me. Most of the nearly fifty examples documented are stamped on Swedish 5-Ore coins. A few are on Norwegian 5-Ore but none on Danish coins. A nice clear counterstamp on a decent coin that fits nicely in my small collection of foreign stamps.

Bruce

 

This is a Miller NY-2079, five reported to exist.

Bruce, are you aware that your specimen is the Rulau plate specimen, shown on page 362 of his 4th Edition?

 

Wow!

 

Here's one

 

No, I wasn't aware that it was the Rulau plate specimen Cheetah. When I bought it from Hayden he made no mention of it...may not have known himself. Thanks so much for the info and I'll be sure to make a note of it on my holder. Knowing its provenance brings a whole new dimension to the token. The history of any piece is important to me, even common ones, and I always keep a record of it so I can pass it down to another collector someday.
I knew this variety with George Christy's name as part of the stamp was a lot rarer than those without. From what I understand, and you can correct me on this if I'm wrong, this would be a very early version (early 1850s ?) of the Woods Minstrels counterstamps. Thanks again for the heads-up Cheetah.

Bruce

 

Three nice gunsmith counterstamps from Balto. Gunsmith stamps always command a premium and these are no exception. Though none are well known and the DeWitt token has been harshly cleaned I still paid decent money for them.
Not much is known about the three men with the exception of Marshall Tidd who practiced in Woburn, MA between 1846 and 1868. He actually had two shops in both Woburn and N. Woburn. He was a prolific manufacturer during the Civil War and supplied weapons to many companies of sharpshooters.
E.M. Glynn was in business from 1871 until 1875 in Clarendon, VT. Examples of his counterstamps are rare, less than half a dozen being documented. I was lucky to come across this at Ernie Latter's table and pick it up at a very good price.
William P. DeWitt was in business at 418 Water St. in Elmira, NY from 1848 until 1891. DeWitt counterstamped a wide variety of coins including U.S. copper and silver coins as well as Spanish 2-reales and even a couple of Canadian tokens. His tokens are more common than the other two.
BTW, the DeWitt and Tidd examples are both from Dave Bower's collection. I have no provenance on the Glynn stamp.

Bruce

 

Such a rich history to be absorbed Bruce. That fact is truly overwhelming for a 'modern' collector.......

 

Awesome write-up and awesome specimens Bruce. Nice to see others who take an interest in the historical specificities about emitters.

 

Below please find a few CWTs acquired from last weekend's Whiteman show.







More to come from the show...

Thanks,

Cheetah

 

I appreciate your comments Ken. The history of these pieces is what really motivates me to research and collect them. Every one provides me with a history lesson.

Bruce

 

Always loved the stag on Schultze's CWT and Hawkin's "Ladies Man" Cheetah. Now there was a man with great confidence...or maybe it was just wishful thinking.
It looks like you had a good show. Very nice additions to your collection.

Bruce

 

1972 Munich Olympiade

 

praying hands token

 

1945 V-Day medal