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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3603596, member: 10461"]Posted that earlier in the thread. The obverse got made into a love token with "CB" script initials, sometime between 1798 and about 1860, based on the style of the engraving.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]964546[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Possibly even later in the 19th century, but based on my experience I am pretty confident the engraving dates to the first half of the 1800s, before the Civil War, and before love token fashion peaked with the much more ornate carvings of the 1870s and 1880s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3603596, member: 10461"]Posted that earlier in the thread. The obverse got made into a love token with "CB" script initials, sometime between 1798 and about 1860, based on the style of the engraving. [ATTACH=full]964546[/ATTACH] Possibly even later in the 19th century, but based on my experience I am pretty confident the engraving dates to the first half of the 1800s, before the Civil War, and before love token fashion peaked with the much more ornate carvings of the 1870s and 1880s.[/QUOTE]
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