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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 25399764, member: 4910&quot;]I bought this token because the store was located in Berkeley (California) near the University of California.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_token_dontworryclub_herbertjones.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Herbert Jones Men&#039;s Furnishings Token Berkeley California</p><p>Brass, 31 mm, 9.19 gm</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse:</p><p>GOOD FOR 5 CENTS ON EVERY DOLLAR OF HATS, SHIRTS AND MEN&#039;S FURNISHINGS BOUGHT OF HERBERT JONES</p><p>2308 TELEGRAPH OR 2114 CENTER BERKELEY, CAL.</p><p>WHEN PRESENTED SINGLY</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse:</p><p>In the center a left facing large swastika, in the arms of the swastika a four-leaf clover, wishbone, horseshoe, and runes.</p><p>MEMBERSHIP EMBLEM OF THE DONT WORRY CLUB</p><p>GOOD LUCK</p><p><br /></p><p>Herbert Jones was a Berkeley men&#039;s clothes store or &quot;haberdashery.&quot; It had one or two locations in Berkeley near the University of California.</p><p><br /></p><p>The store was in business from 1904 to 1927.</p><p><br /></p><p>This token dates from 1908 to 1909 as those were the only years that Herbert Jones was at the two addresses on the token.</p><p><br /></p><p>I looked for Herbert Jones in the University of California newspaper <i>The Daily Californian</i> archives and found some of his advertisements which allowed me to determine the store addresses.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_herbertjones_adver_1906.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Herbert Jones advertisements 1906</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_herbertjones_adver_1909.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Herbert Jones advertisements 1909</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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