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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 24595902, member: 101855&quot;]I saw this thread last night at the bottom of the page and hoped to revive it. I&#039;m glad that others did.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had a significant side business in the CWTs when I was a dealer. I kept some of the more interesting pieces. A really great collection has about 5,000 varieties. I have nowhere near that. I have only a couple hundred or so. Here are few that grabbed my interest.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Skidmore Hotel had a gentlemen’s smoking and billiards room. This token, with the unusual eagle with a cigar in its beak, is a souvenir of that long lost “man cave.” This is a fairly scarce token although many of the survivors are in high grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1562162[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I like the high relief aspect of this token, which was issued by a Philadelphia watch importer. He also issued a token with his portrait on it. And yes, the portrait piece I have has been improperly cleaned. I bought it when I was putting together a set of the CTWs have a portrait of the business owner on them. The late Jack Detwilder wrote an article for the &quot;Civil War Token Journal&quot; that was entitled &quot;They Loved Themselves.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1562163[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1562164[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Drovers&#039; Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri was a place for cowboys to stay after they had driven a herd to town. I am sure that it was not &quot;The Ritz.&quot; This one is scarace.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1562165[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This &quot;good for&quot; a glass of beer CWT was issued by Fredrick Miller who started the beer company which still bears his name. The company has passed through many owner since then. Like many &quot;good for&#039;s,&quot; This one is rare with perhaps 10 to 20 known. My theory is that the issuers destroyed them after they were redeemed. There is a much most common Fredrick Miller variety that has the same obverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1562166[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Fayette &quot;Yankee&quot; Robinson was a traveling show entertainer. Like some people in a high risk business he went from very wealthy to very poor. In his last years, he was a penniless barker at the Ringling Brothers Circus. This piece was issued during his happier days. The reverse brings into focus a bit of carnival &quot;hocus-pocus.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1562167[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have many more, but this is a nice group.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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