Just Bob Posted November 16, 2022 Author Share Posted November 16, 2022 I do not. Although information about the company's crimes is plentiful, information about the token is not. I can't even find a picture of one online. Henri Charriere 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Just Bob Posted November 30, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 30, 2022 Word Gidden Ford was incorporated in 1953, and remained open until January, 1965. Their charter of incorporation not only covered the sale and repair of automobiles, but also included farm equipment, washing machines, flamethrowers, Victrolas, and televisions. Hoghead515, Fenntucky Mike and RonnieR131 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tj96 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 . Henri Charriere 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Just Bob Posted December 28, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2022 Back on page one, I posted a set of tokens issued by King and Anderson, a plantation in Dickerson, Mississippi. I mentioned a $3.50 punch card, an example of which I had never seen. I am happy to report that I recently found one for sale on Ebay, and pulled the trigger without hesitation. This is the seller's pic: Hoghead515, Henri Charriere, RonnieR131 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoghead515 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 On 12/28/2022 at 12:34 AM, Just Bob said: Back on page one, I posted a set of tokens issued by King and Anderson, a plantation in Dickerson, Mississippi. I mentioned a $3.50 punch card, an example of which I had never seen. I am happy to report that I recently found one for sale on Ebay, and pulled the trigger without hesitation. This is the seller's pic: Very cool find. Looks to be in very good shape. About what year or time period does that date back to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post coinsarefun Posted December 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2022 On 10/25/2022 at 9:51 AM, Buffalo Head said: Not mine but maybe one day I can pry it from the owners hands. . nice token:) Hoghead515, The Neophyte Numismatist, rrantique and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Bob Posted December 29, 2022 Author Share Posted December 29, 2022 On 12/28/2022 at 6:29 PM, Hoghead515 said: Very cool find. Looks to be in very good shape. About what year or time period does that date back to? I have tried to answer this three times, but my post keeps disappearing. One more try: Probably in the 1930s or 40s. I assume it was issued at the same time as the metal tokens, which are made of aluminum. Aluminum did not see widespread use as a material for tokens or coins until the price dropped enough to make it feasible, which I believe was in the 1930s. Hoghead515 and RonnieR131 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Fenntucky Mike Posted January 10, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2023 Here's a couple of moderns. Redline68, Hoghead515, rrantique and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Fenntucky Mike Posted January 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 24, 2023 (edited) The F.A. Wurzburg Casino was part of the Ottawa Beach Hotel (Hotel Ottawa) complex, a sprawling resort consisting of the original 36 room hotel and a 104 room annex. First constructed in 1886 both the hotel and annex were moved from the upper dunes to the shore of Lake Macatawa (then known as Black Lake) in 1896. There was an elevated walkway which joined the annex to the hotel under which a railroad spur passed, having been constructed by the Chicago and West Michigan Railway specifically to bring guests to and from the facility. At its height, the Hotel complex included it's own electric power plant, cottages, boat docks, tennis courts, a billiard parlor, nine-hole golf course, bowling alley, restaurant and casino. Although titled "casino" the building served as a gathering place for music, dancing and hotel events. The Hotel complex was at its peak of popularity from 1901 to 1923, at which point on Tuesday, Nov 6, 1923 a fire broke out in the hotel's barbershop. It is theorized that the fire was due to defective wiring, but whatever the cause, the fire quickly engulfed the hotel, passing along the elevated walkway to the annex and burnt both structures to the ground, along with several surrounding buildings. The premature draining of the complex's water tank after the custodian left for a deer hunting trip likely doomed the annex and surrounding buildings as the tank was designed to provide sufficient pressure to send water to every part of the hotel grounds and should have preformed adequately in lieu of the line of volunteers forming a bucket brigade in an effort to save the hotel. With plans to rebuild stymied by the estimated cost, $750K, and title issues with the property, as the waterfront location that the hotel was moved to in 1896 was originally platted as a park and no clear title being obtained at the time of the move, it was decided to sell. On December 17, 1925 the property was purchased by the [Michigan] State Park Board which turned the site into Holland State Park, and currently sees around 2MM visitors a year. Edited January 24, 2023 by Fenntucky Mike Grammar Rod D., zadok, RonnieR131 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Just Bob Posted January 25, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2023 I found another variety of this wooden nickel. (Thank you Fenntucky Mike for making me aware of the different types.) Given the recent passing of Mr. Lange, there was no way I was going to let it get away. Hoghead515, Henri Charriere, Rod D. and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoghead515 Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 On 1/24/2023 at 8:42 PM, Just Bob said: I found another variety of this wooden nickel. (Thank you Fenntucky Mike for making me aware of the different types.) Given the recent passing of Mr. Lange, there was no way I was going to let it get away. I found one while back like that and bought it. Ive misplaced it in this house somewhere. When I get more time Ill dig it up and share it. Its not to far. Its in a box with some tokens. Without looking at it I couldnt tell you which variety it is. I found it for sale and bought it where it had David Lange on it. RonnieR131 and Henri Charriere 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USAuPzlBxBob Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 Currently 12 pages of this stuff… and not one example of the famous… WALDO C. MOORE/A.N.A. 637/LEWISBURG, O./BANKER/NUMISMATIST/PHILATELIST/FOWL FANCIER/1911. Anyone know what the token would be worth, today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post coinsarefun Posted February 26, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 26, 2023 On 2/26/2023 at 1:57 PM, USAuPzlBxBob said: Currently 12 pages of this stuff… and not one example of the famous… WALDO C. MOORE/A.N.A. 637/LEWISBURG, O./BANKER/NUMISMATIST/PHILATELIST/FOWL FANCIER/1911. Anyone know what the token would be worth, today? I had this one graded and sold it last year. I’ll look up how much I sold it for and let you know. rrantique, Rod D., Fenntucky Mike and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coinsarefun Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 On 2/26/2023 at 1:57 PM, USAuPzlBxBob said: Currently 12 pages of this stuff… and not one example of the famous… WALDO C. MOORE/A.N.A. 637/LEWISBURG, O./BANKER/NUMISMATIST/PHILATELIST/FOWL FANCIER/1911. Anyone know what the token would be worth, today? By the way, do you know what the pictograph says on the obverse? 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post USAuPzlBxBob Posted February 27, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 27, 2023 With a User Name like USAuPzlBxBob, how could I not know?! RonnieR131, rrantique and coinsarefun 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post coinsarefun Posted February 27, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 27, 2023 On 2/26/2023 at 4:15 PM, USAuPzlBxBob said: With a User Name like USAuPzlBxBob, how could I not know?! Here are a few more things about the man. But, before the pics I'll expose the obverse saying as you stated you knew it but others might not have. Awl + Tea + Hat + G [Cleft] + litters [hogs and hounds] + II [= two i's = is] knot + gold doubloon. "All that glitters is not gold" Needless to say he was a very energetic and entrepreneurial gentleman USAuPzlBxBob, Fenntucky Mike, rrantique and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post J P M Posted February 28, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2023 I was at Kings Mountain Battle Grounds this weekend and picked up a colonial replica, sold by the US. Park Service. RonnieR131, Just Bob, Fenntucky Mike and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Captainrich Posted February 28, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2023 Here are a few counterstamped seated liberty coins, specifically two halves and a quarter, advertising some "snake oil" type confections. In the 1850’s, druggist Charles H. Goodwin of Exeter, New Hampshire, invented and promoted the concoctions Goodwin’s Grand GreaseJuice (G.G.G.) and Goodwin’s Grand Glittering Globules (G.G.G.G.). Goodwin’s Grand GreaseJuice was for the “embellishment, preservation, growth and beauty of human hair,” while his Grand Glittering Globules was advertised as an “unrivaled breath perfume.” Copyrights for the products were granted in 1855. Goodwin promoted his products by counterstamping a variety of U.S. and Canadian coins and tokens. Many of the varieties have been cataloged in Gregory G. Brunk’s American and Canadian Countermarked Coins and in Russell Rulau’s Standard Catalog of United States Tokens. USAuPzlBxBob, rrantique, Just Bob and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Fenntucky Mike Posted April 11, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 11, 2023 Got a chance to snap a couple pics of some recent acquisitions. Here's one. Just Bob, Rod D. and Coinbuf 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Fenntucky Mike Posted April 11, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 11, 2023 Here's the other. Coinbuf, Rod D. and Just Bob 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Just Bob Posted April 12, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 12, 2023 Robert Haxton operated a sawmill near Greenville, MS from 1910 to 1931. Chatham's Mississippi token book lists denominations of 5, 25, & 50 cents and one dollar. This 10 cent token is unlisted. Rod D., Fenntucky Mike and rrantique 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Just Bob Posted April 19, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 19, 2023 T.W. Frashuer owned a grocery store in Locum, MS. from 1917 to 1929. He is listed in the 1920 census as a Retail Produce Merchant. The town of Locum is now extinct. The only token listed from this store is a 10 cent token. I seem to have developed a knack recently of being able to find unlisted tokens or denominations. This 50 cent token was listed on Ebay a while back. It is in rough shape - likely dug from the ground - so I picked it up for a decent price. Fenntucky Mike, rrantique and Rod D. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BKW1 Posted April 20, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 20, 2023 It’s not Tuesday but… RonnieR131, Just Bob, rrantique and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Just Bob Posted April 21, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 21, 2023 On 4/20/2023 at 6:07 PM, BKW1 said: It’s not Tuesday but… Just to be clear, I gave your post a "like" because I appreciate you posting to my thread. Being Mississippi born and raised, there is no way I could like the message of the token. However, we have already had a discussion about political tokens and whether or not they should be permitted. It is my thread, and they are most certainly welcome, regardless of whether or not I or anyone else agrees with the subject matter or message. Again, thanks for participating. Fenntucky Mike, rrantique, Henri Charriere and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henri Charriere Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Att: JB: This may come as a surprise to you, but as the member alluded to in the preceding post, I found nothing objectionable about this post by @BKW1 . It is a legitimate product and its maker even went so far as to pretty it up with denticles. If it were not legitimate, it would not have been accepted for formal certification.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J P M Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Wow that token holds nothing back. It is in very good shape. What grade is it if any ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BKW1 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 (edited) PCGS AU58. DeWitt-C-1861-13 It’s tough to find nice examples of this piece, especially with a fair amount of silvering left. Only 13 graded (9 at PCGS and 4 at NGC) Edited April 22, 2023 by BKW1 RonnieR131 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...