Here are the two series of the car coins, these are the winners prizes for filling out the playing card at the end of the photos. The games peices were same as the tokens only minted out of aluminum, can't find a picture of one have to hunt them up and take a photo and store it with these. Both of these are my winners as I filled in both cards. Sunoco and DX gas stations had the games along with one for presidents, and land mark in the USA there could be others. Franklin Mint had a habit of running set for sale after the contests was over and if people that didn't win wanted sets. The set with cardboard holders, I seen from $5.00 and up. the single tokens go for .25¢ too.75 or in the bargain bins for 50% off. Like most items from Franklin Mint they aren't worth much hope this helps.
Here are the two series of the car coins, these are the winners prizes for filling out the playing card at the end of the photos. The games peices were same as the tokens only minted out of aluminum, can't find a picture of one have to hunt them up and take a photo and store it with these. Both of these are my winners as I filled in both cards. Sunoco and DX gas stations had the games along with one for presidents, and land mark in the USA there could be others. Franklin Mint had a habit of running set for sale after the contests was over and if people that didn't win wanted sets. The set with cardboard holders, I seen from $5.00 and up. the single tokens go for .25¢ too.75 or in the bargain bins for 50% off. Like most items from Franklin Mint they aren't worth much hope this helps.
Thanks that helps a lot! I didnt think they were worth a lot, but for a buck (no cardboard holder) for all 25 not bad. Did you fill those up back in 1968?
Well sometimes goodness comes in ugly clothing...This one was in the 5 token lot I bought the other night for $1.99. DOUBLE ATTRIBUTED Wilbern Cox Pocket Billiards GOOD FOR 5¢IN TRADE TC-132435 Gross 2; Vacketta VIL-01; Wagaman H-7250c Also attributed to Villa Grove, Illinois The Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct 1915 - Indianapolis, Indiana For Sale- Three pool tables and fixtures, good as new. Wilbern Cox Pittsboro, IND. addtional info" :1910 Census: Greenfield City, Hancock County, Indiana - Wilborn Cox b. 1879), pool room Greensboro, IN is about 20 miles East of Indianapolis. Pittsboro, IN is about 20 miles West. The business could have been operating before 1930, but if so, it must have been operating into the 1930's or later as well. -- , IND." Indiana collectors need to look into this one. When was the business in operation? Did it move from Pittsboro, IN to Hymera, IN ? -- Also listed from Hymera, IND. as H-7250C. Later after his death his son in law and daughter opened a chain of billiard halls until their deaths in 2012 called Pockets Billiards in and around Indianapolis. I sought guidance on this one and was told to start bidding at $300.
A group of 4 medals issued in 1817 upon the death of Princess Charlotte commemorating her birth, marriage, death and obsequies. They were issued in the tiny box shown.
Good morning Circus. Does Michigan have a lot of trade tokens from iron or steel works companies? That sounds like a fun topic to collect.
More so from lumber camps and lumber mill company stores, In 1882, an organization by the name of "John Otis & Company" built a large charcoal furnace on the site.In the beginning of the corporation, lumber was hauled in from various lumber camps around Northern Mich.After many years of buying material to create the iron with, the company decided to obtain its own timber, and built a small railroad branch (named the Mancelona North West Railroad) heading 2 miles west from the company site. With this spur line, the company logged its own lumber and hauled it in on its own railroad, proving to be quite self-sufficient. This lasted until the 1920s, when the lumber ran out and other ways were developed to obtain the iron. After the war ended, the company quickly slowed down, and closed in 1945. The factory stood abandoned for over forty years, until it was torn down in the mid-1980s. Today all that is left of the old furnace consists of a few foundations, a small outbuilding, and a former railroad siding. The company dumped its waste in a pond behind the building, which years later led to water contamination in the town. The pond, called "Tar Lake", was cleaned up in the mid to late 1990s.
here you go this is one way, this is my jewelry metal rolling machine can be used for impressing shapes, lace impressions of even leafs in metal. Been a while since I used it theses 3 have some starts and stops since, I took too much thickness in one pass. You can adjust it so it will come out with a clearer imprint of the die impression.
nice token and write up. These show up on ebay occasionally. You should sell that token to the man who valued it at $300. Aluminum tokens rarely sell for that much. When they do they usually have the word saloon on them.