Any idea on this tag...?

[Pcola Pirate]

Found this tag in a public park in Pensacola last weekend. It kinda looks like what in military aviation is called a 'tool tag' or 'tool chit'...It was in pieces and one is not accounted for...was 3-4" deep...Any info would be appreciate. Already e-mailed the Escambia Co.(Pensacola) Historical Society for their $.02 ...Thanks...!!!

 

[CATFISHJK1]

Pensacola Ship Building Company, Florida

http://shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/4emergency/wwone/pensacola.htm

 

[GoGoGopher]

Tool bin tag

 

[MonDak]

Pcola
Although yours is a tool tag, here are some very similar ones that were used in the early
underground coal mines about 1900 to the 1930,s. When a miner went down in the mine
he would hang 1 on a board so they would know who was underground. Another was
kept on his person so if there was a catastrphy they would be able to identify his remains.

 

[MonDak]

here are some more, the Holly Sugar one is a tool tag.

 

[1859large]

Those stop sign shaped ones look really familiar.

I found a case of the same shape tags with the same font in a shipwreck from 1909. A ship called the SS Ohio, bound for Alaska when it was lost.

The short story is; inside the ship one deck down in 18" of mud I found a box, it was rotten of course and I could not lift it out intact. It fell apart and inside it felt like hard rods about an inch in diameter. I was wearing 1/4" thick neoprene gloves. When I tried to pick up a "rod"it fell into disks. What now? Certainly not coins? Well I gathered up several hand fulls and in the murk got most of them into my goodie bag. I gave up retrieving the disk like objects when it was to murky to grope around and I then swam towards the light.

In clear water I could see that I had not found a stash of gold coins but despite 75 years underwater they still where shiny and bright from being stacked so close together and buried in mud in a box.

I swam back to the boat and put on my best down and out expression and climbed the ladder. The first words to me were " you didn't find anything" which I answered " nothing but some gold coins" throwing the bag at the deck where it fell with a coin like sound. You should have seen the faces and activity. A golden moment with a few pounds of brass.

I never did recover all these tags but the lowest number where in the 10s and the highest 500. I don't remember the count but I must have gathered 100 or more and gave many away to my friends as key fobs.

As the photo shows they hold up well to 25 years of use. The balance have corroded in my basement. The other tags where used by the ship and where made for the previous owners. The ship was owned by the Alaska Steamship Company it sank.

HH

1859

 

[deerman]

what you found might be an i.d. tag used in different areas of the ship/boatwe used some like that to i.d. pipes/electric/boiler lines on the ship so you could follow a line/pipe going from one area to another as it went thru a bulkhead/wall in the shipso you knew where it went?

 

[comisoas]

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