Here is a token that I cannot find any where online or anywhere else. I have located the other tokens from the same maker but nothing at all on this one . STUMPED to say the least. Any information would be greatly appreciated. sorry for the pictures, not sure how to rotate them
That's real close , I've seen others that are bread tokens from same maker. But that's the first bar token from him I have seen. Thank you , getting closer
Here's a bit about Henry Rice: http://www.shapell.org/manuscript/civil-war-sutler-coin-of-jewish-sutler
You are SUPER Dave !! Wow so much info on that page. What an exciting story.Excellent...but still somewhat puzzled...should I think that it being a good for 5 that it would be an early token from him, and also would it have been no earlier than 1878 if that's the year he moved to Ohio?
Based on value - one would expect a Bar Token to be roughly a free beer - it should be fairly late in his activity (around the turn of the century) for a beer to cost a whole Nickel.
Great thinking. ,should have thought of that.wonder if a local bar had hired him to make the token for them ,knowing his background as a maker ... Or if it was perhaps his bar
I've pulled all this data off the Internet today in response to your question. Had no trouble finding examples of his bar token work, that and similar must have been his livelihood after the war. I would imagine as a result there are quite a few mavericks attributable to him.
Alright, the link you provided was very helpful. I think I will have to keep this one now haha . I like the article about him too much. Very cool that he was Abraham Lincolns friend. Thank you all so much . You guys don't stump easy
I must be missing something. I don't see anything that links Henry Rice the Sutler with H Rice the token manufacturer. H Rice was apparently from Dayton Ohio, but I don't see anything that has Henry Rice the Sutler having moved to Dayton. He was in New York, Jacksonville IL, Memphis TN, St Louis MO, and then in 1866 moved back to New York City and was apparently there or West End NJ until at least 1908.
Intriguing, I didn't think of there possibly being another H.Rice. token maker . now I should try to find a link between Dayton and h.rice the sutler
No evidence has been presented that Henry Rice the Sutler made his own tokens. Considering his businesses, odds are quite good that he didn't and he had someone else make them for him. Most merchants that used tokens did not make them themselves. They paid another company to make them.
