Let's see your exonumia!

A great find jello! Probably put there by the builder of the house. I've done that over the years when I've done renovations on my homes. A "treat" for someone to find sometime down the road.

Bruce

 

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Ya or For Good Luck is what I was told after finding it by the state parks supervisor he said keep it kid it my bring you good luck.

 

I finally have these photographed individually and in my spreadsheet program under exonumia. I have several other odd ball collections there. The Chicago Worlds Fair, and coin dispensers are the only other major ones. It did take a little time researching the issue numbers, types of insert and inlays, plus collector value verses condition. Now what will I do during the long winter days ahead? Well, I do have a few conventions I plan to attend.

 

1920-1960 Milk token from my wife family had til I was gifted it.

Check out the phone number.

 

Not many phones in those days jello. Made it a lot easier to remember someone's phone number. What's the token made out of...the picture makes it look like lead.

Bruce

 

Maybe old time pewter?

 

This was a less $5.00 with free shipping eBay buy.but found we both wasted money I just wasted a lot less than seller.

 

Looks like steel zinc oxide mix but just guessing that. But I can still remember my first phone number. 4931 but you had to tell a operate to get the party on line.1955 Mom was like a drill sergeant that first day of kindergarten.

 

Jello:

I had to make sure there was no one else talking on the connection. We shared a party line with four other house holds. You could talk with anyone of the four by simply picking up the phone. You also had to identify your number with the operator so she new which customer she should bill. We had no direct dial service for several years. I could tell you what it would take to make a long distance call, but we would be hijacking the thread. Over seas calls were not common by the general public until the Trans-Atlantic Cable was in place.

 

@saltyman-1
My aunt had same thing. Gossip line she would say. My Dad had a business so we could have two lines. Mom worked for Ma Bell back then as one the operators.

 

My grandmother worked for Ma
Bell for 45 years. Remember when
Lillian Thomlin used to play the operater calling Mr. Vettle on Laugh-In? Man, she'd go ballistic
whenever she saw that.

 

Ya upstate NY was fun but hearing the wrong thing and Share it could be a big mistake. Catskills mountain are very big and repeat whatsoever ________?
you could become a part of the mountain and I'm sure there someone that had made that mistake.

 

The Manchester school of design awarded this frosted silver medal by William Wyon to Henry Clarence Whaite in 1851.



Whaite (1828-1912) was an English landscape artist and a leading figure in the foundation of both the Royal Cambrian Academy of Arts and the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts.

 

A few new pickups.

Richard Trested
1820 Early American Token. Rarity 8+
NGC MS61
Silvered Brass

Some great information here








Added a great looking toned E. Hill Merchant Token to my collection.
Copper MS65RB







Add lastly a really super cool looking and relatively rare SoCalled Dollar.
HK-859 Continental Confederation NGC MS62
German Silver

 

oops, mistake

 

I always had an interest in the work of Richard Trested coinsarefun. I had a token years ago that I had a suspicion was the work of this very talented diesinker. It was in brass and had an eagle that had the "look" of his work. I could never link it to him though I did research on the issue. Unfortunately, I no longer have an image to post here and don't remember all the details of the design. I don't believe it was one that is detailed in the very informative article that you linked to though.
Thanks for the information and the pictures of your beautiful tokens. Maybe some day I'll get back to collecting the Hard Times series. Congratulations on the great additions to your collection.

Bruce

 

The W.W. & Co. counterstamp is that of Middletown, CT lock maker William Wilcox. Wilcox was born in 1819 in Killinworth and after initially apprenticing as a gunsmith started his lock business in 1845.

There's a second variety of his counterstamp that includes an eagle as shown in the image of the keyhole cover of one of his padlocks (from my collection). I've seen a second example on a lock owned by Robert Merchant, but the eagle faces left. The design is an exact match to that struck on the only known coin specimen, an 1838 Large Cent.

I liked the old classic design so much, that when I decided to get a personal die cut for myself about ten years ago I copied it. I've included a picture, this one struck on a brass tag.

Bruce

 

Beautiful pieces