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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1811757, member: 57463&quot;]The plethora of adverting exonumia has no easy taxonomy.The Krause<i>Standard Catalog of United States Tokens 1790-1900</i> by Russell Rulau assigns them to a dozen classes, but then must have another genus for mavericks. Within the classes – Advertising Checks, Counterstamped Coins, Poker Checks, Tool Checks, etc. – physical shapes exceed the limitations of Federal coinage: rectangles and hearts are statistical likelihoods.</p><p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ghJ4MYh-WSY/UnKW3K9tBBI/AAAAAAAACCY/VKMKVPYm90A/s1600/UnionPacific+Greenduck.JPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ghJ4MYh-WSY/UnKW3K9tBBI/AAAAAAAACCY/VKMKVPYm90A/s1600/UnionPacific+Greenduck.JPG" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ghJ4MYh-WSY/UnKW3K9tBBI/AAAAAAAACCY/VKMKVPYm90A/s400/UnionPacific+Greenduck.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;33 mm aluminum. Plain edge. </p><p>1934 Chicago Century of Progress.</p><p>Obverse: Union Pacific Lucky Piece</p><p>Art deco Union Pacific engine. </p><p>Reverse legends: “Sample of the aluminum in the new Union Pacific train </p><p>built by Pullman Car &amp; Mfg. Corp.” </p><p>1929 trademark Norman shield with ACOA and ALCOA </p><p>with stars in corners. </p><p>“Aluminum Company of America&quot;</p><p>in exergue: &quot;GREENDUCK, CHI&quot;</p><p>Manufactured by <b>Greenduck of Chicago</b> (about that company <a href="http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v13n50a16.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v13n50a16.html" rel="nofollow">here on E-Sylum</a> of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.)One million given out at fair.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_j1j27kquf8/UnKW1ebnlpI/AAAAAAAACBs/fW2g6ZHqq4E/s1600/Bliss+1976.JPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_j1j27kquf8/UnKW1ebnlpI/AAAAAAAACBs/fW2g6ZHqq4E/s1600/Bliss+1976.JPG" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_j1j27kquf8/UnKW1ebnlpI/AAAAAAAACBs/fW2g6ZHqq4E/s400/Bliss+1976.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>34 mm aluminum 4 mm height. plain edge</p><p>Obverse: Heavy machine press with BLISS name.</p><p>Legend: &quot;Bettering the Standard of Value Since 1857&quot;</p><p>Reverse: Standard US Bicentennial logo and legends.</p><p>Though he began building machines in 1857, E. W. Bliss founded his firm in 1867. Reorganized several times, a vestige still operates as <b><a href="http://www.bcntechserv.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bcntechserv.com/" rel="nofollow">Bliss Clearing Niagara in Hastings, Michigan</a></b>, specializing in the repair and maintenance of industrial metal presses. Bliss created primary production tools, machines that made other machines. They also produced military ammunition and a wide range of large and small containers made of sheet metal. For a short time around 1906, at their main office Brooklyn, New York, plant they manufactured an automobile.</p><p>E. W. Bliss Company <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._W._Bliss_Company" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._W._Bliss_Company" rel="nofollow">on Wikipedia here</a>:</p><p>“Walkabout the Lords of Owl’s Head” at <a href="http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012/05/walkabout-the-lords-of-owl%E2%80%99s-head-part-2/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012/05/walkabout-the-lords-of-owl%E2%80%99s-head-part-2/" rel="nofollow">the Brownstoner blog</a>. </p><p><a href="http://brooklynology.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/post/2011/01/06/EW-Bliss-Co-Torpedoes-and-Telegraph-Codes.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://brooklynology.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/post/2011/01/06/EW-Bliss-Co-Torpedoes-and-Telegraph-Codes.aspx" rel="nofollow">“Torpedoes and Telegraph Codes” from the Brooklyn Public Library</a>.</p><p>See also the <b><a href="http://www.sterlingmachinery.com/manufacturer.php?brand=Bliss" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sterlingmachinery.com/manufacturer.php?brand=Bliss" rel="nofollow">online sales catalog</a></b> of the Sterling Machinery company.</p><p>(Not to be confused with Bliss Machines, founded 1987 outside Buffalo New York by <a href="http://www.blissmachine.net/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.blissmachine.net/" rel="nofollow">Bill and RandyKanner</a>.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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