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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 5258391, member: 101855"]Here are a few more John Marr tokens. Here is the latest in Civil War era kitchen ranges from J. Pritzlaff & Co. [ATTACH=full]1219563[/ATTACH] "Don't despair" when you can buy your saws and other hardware from Wm. Frankfurth [ATTACH=full]1219564[/ATTACH] Jeweler Henry Upmeyer had to have been a huge fan of the late Stephen Douglas. He had Douglas' profile on all of his tokens. This is not a political piece because Douglas died in 1861 before this piece was made in 1863. [ATTACH=full]1219565[/ATTACH] Very few of John Marr's tokens are listed as patriotic varieties. This is one of the exception. Some people think that these pieces were salesmen's samples for the stock die varieties. I believe that these two designs were the motifs that Marr intended to use with is 1864 tokens. The law that outlawed the use of tokens as money substitutes put an end to that. Very few merchant tokens were issued with these designs. [ATTACH=full]1219567[/ATTACH] The Ch. Herman Broom and cleaning supplies token dies were used to make many specialty tokens for 19th century collectors after the war. There are many sub-varieties in listed in the CWT books in various metals. [ATTACH=full]1219568[/ATTACH] This piece is listed as a Mossin and Marr token, but the die work is not in the John Marr style. I believe that these dies may have been cut by John Marr's partner, Peter Mossin. [ATTACH=full]1219571[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]