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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BRandM, post: 1924346, member: 22729&quot;]Very nice additions to your collection Charmy. The Macomber store card / love token really interested me so I decided to see if I could find out who made the piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found a boot and shoe maker named Leander S. Macomber who was in business in Fall River, MA at least as early as 1888, perhaps even a bit earlier. He was in a partnership with W.N. Emery (probably his brother-in-law) and H.A. Fish first at 10 Granite Block and later at 15 S. Main St. They did business under the name Emery &amp; Co. and remained in business until at least 1896. Apparently, the partnership dissolved in the early 1900s and Macomber continued on alone until March, 1909 when he sold out to Modern Shoe.</p><p>He died in September, 1920 in Fall River.</p><p>Although Rhode Island born and bred, he was a resident of Fall River beginning in 1878 when he married Elizabeth Emery, a native of that city. I don&#039;t know who &quot;Sharon&quot; was or even if it were a person or a town&#039;s name. Although not attributed by them, I came across a reference to your token suggesting that Sharon might indicate a location where Macomber worked. Apparently, they looked at it as merely a store card and didn&#039;t consider it a love token. Unfortunately, I don&#039;t recall where I saw that information.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, I checked out the possibility of it being a location rather than a name. There is a Sharon, MA. about 40 miles north of Fall River, but I saw no evidence that Macomber ever worked or lived there. If it does represent a woman&#039;s name, I don&#039;t know who she was. His wife&#039;s name was Elizabeth and his mother&#039;s Mary. If he had a girlfriend named Sharon, then it would have been after he married Elizabeth in 1878. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; He wasn&#039;t in the shoemaking business until several years later so your token couldn&#039;t have been issued before then.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for showing your great new additions Charmy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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