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Message:: [QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8179228, member: 20201"]1940's Red Goose ShoesPremium Money Set [ATTACH=full]1429703[/ATTACH] These tokens were also made in fiber, in different colors, probably during the World War II when metals were being used in the war effort.Here is a nice set, which I think is complete that either preceded the war or minted shortly afterwards or both but no later than 1950. I have my doubts as to the trade in value being equal in cents for the denominations of these tokens. When these were made, the amount these state would be a lot of money if equal in trade for cash.Perhaps one would get so much off the price of shoes for so many "points" instead.They may have been redeemable in discount or used as play money. I am unsure? "The Red Goose Shoe Company of St. Louis, Missouri, began selling shoes to pioneer families headed west in 1869. The company's name was originally Gieseke-D'Oench-Hayes, after its founders, but when the company became advertising conscious in the early 1900s, they changed the name.Gieseke is German slang for "goose" so the goose image came naturally. The red color came later when, during the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, some stock boys painted the goose on the cartons red. The head of the company liked the idea, and so Red Goose Shoes was trademarked in 1906. In 1911, the Roberts, Johnson & Rand Shoe Company merged with the Peters Shoe Company to form the International Shoe Company in St. Louis. Red Goose was swallowed up by the International Shoe in the first half of the 20th Century. International Shoe dropped Red Goose. And, by 1953, International Shoe Company changed its name to Interco and bought Florsheim Shoes." [ATTACH=full]1429704[/ATTACH]  [ATTACH=full]1429705[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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