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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Circus, post: 4340474, member: 51195&quot;]This should clear up the facts.</p><p>Excelsior Shoe Co. Tokens</p><p>Good Luck Tokens with a Rider on Horseback</p><p><img src="https://www.sageventure.com/dot.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As a boy scout leader and coin collector, I have done a great deal of research to share with the you the many &quot;Shoe for Boys&quot; tokens issued by the Excelsior shoe company.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"> </font></p><p><font size="5"><b> <img src="https://www.sageventure.com/coins/scout/V2.2a3.obv.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><img src="https://www.sageventure.com/coins/scout2/V3.1a1.obv.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><img src="https://www.sageventure.com/coins/scout/V4.4a1.obv.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><img src="https://www.sageventure.com/coins/scout/PetersShoeCoObv.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </b></font></p><p><font size="5"><b> Shoe for Boys</b></font></p><p>The Excelsior Shoe Company took advantage of the opportunity to associate their advertising with the new Boy Scout movement that began in 1910.&nbsp; They created a &quot;Boy Scout&quot; shoe and tokens issued between July 1910 and January 1914.&nbsp; The tokens were manufactured by Schwaab Stamp &amp; Seal Company of Milwaukee, and the Wisconsin and Whitehead &amp; Hoag Company of Newark, New Jersey.</p><p><br /></p><p>The wording on the tokens, &quot;Boy Scouts&quot; &amp; &quot;Medal&quot; were brand names of shoes made by Excelsior.&nbsp; Tokens were usually bronze or brass and some were zinc.&nbsp; Sterling silver tokens were also made in some varieties for Scoutmasters that had his entire troop buy Excelsior shoes.&nbsp; From the research I have done, I believe the Belle Meade Shoe Co. reverse was made around 1916.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are also tokens that show a hiker and uses the words &quot;Boy Scout.&quot;&nbsp; One is an advertisment for the Peters Shoe Co.&nbsp; The other (from Tim Mahle) shows the same hiker but has no advertisement on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a scout web site that deals in official scout coins and the shoe company scout tokens&nbsp; <a href="https://www.sageventure.com/coins/tokens.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sageventure.com/coins/tokens.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.sageventure.com/coins/tokens.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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