Just What A Lot Of People Want After A Hot Day Of Detecting...

[Geologyhound]

A 5 cent drink at the bar! I assume A Bradfish was the proprietor’s name and the bar’s name. My understanding is the heyday for drink tokens was from the civil war to prohibition in 1919. Local county directories do not have any listings for Bradfish from 1887 (earliest available) to 1912. The only other directories are 1939 and 1940, and had an Aug. Bradfish residing in another part of the county.

The shell casing appears to be a .32 long rim fire with a US head stamp. That would be the US Cartridge Co., which dates it to between post-civil war to late 1920’s.

I am not sure what the clip is. I am wondering if it is some sort of hair ribbon clip?
Thanks for looking!

 

[T-DUB]

A 5 cent drink at the bar! I assume A Bradfish was the proprietor’s name and the bar’s name. My understanding is the heyday for drink tokens was from the civil war to prohibition in 1919. Local county directories do not have any listings for Bradfish from 1887 (earliest available) to 1912. The only other directories are 1939 and 1940, and had an Aug. Bradfish residing in another part of the county.

The shell casing appears to be a .32 long rim fire with a US head stamp. That would be the US Cartridge Co., which dates it to between post-civil war to late 1920’s.

I am not sure what the clip is. I am wondering if it is some sort of hair ribbon clip?
Thanks for looking!

Tokens are cool!

 

[JimmyCT]

I love that token!! Great find!!

 

[Geologyhound]

Thanks! I couldn’t really tell what it was when I found it. But a toothpick cleaned out the letters nicely. That is my first drink token, so that made my day!

 

[jim tn]

Neat token. Nice find! HH jim tn

 

[Odanscoils]

Nice one. Congratulations.

 

[Ronstar]

Tokens can be worth as much as coins, especially to collectors. Coins dont seem to tell as much of a story like tokens do.

 

[Geologyhound]

Tokens can be worth as much as coins, especially to collectors. Coins dont seem to tell as much of a story like tokens do.

Based on what I am seeing on-line, drink tokens of this general type are selling for around $12-$75, depending on the condition and bar. So it is probably worth more than 99.9% of the coins I have found.

 

[MuddyMo]

Cool find!

 

[Explorer.se]

Tokens are cool!

Yes! They are my all time favorite finds!