Yesterday I went to my favorite park and found that they had cut the grass, which helps a lot when you're trying for deep signals. I tried an area where some old stuff has turned up. Not a whole lot found, but a couple of keepers, a buffalo nickel which I think is a 1918, and my first trade token, "good for 5 cents in trade", octagon shaped and larger that a quarter. It was fairly deep, I would estimate about 7 inches. Total hunt time was 2 hours.
I do genealogy research as a hobby, and looked up "J. Chery" in the census of 1900 and 1910. Nothing under that name, but when I checked under the name Cherry, I found Julius Cherry, age 29, an immigrant from Austria, living at 614 Light St. in the 1910 Census. Apparently he owned a confectionary (bakery and/or candy store) at the address on the token from about 1906 until 1910 (from Baltimore directories). In 1911 the store is now listed as selling "mens furnishings". In 1912 he is located at a different address. So the token must have been issued between 1906 and 1911.
These tokens seem to be more common in the west and midwest for some reason, but it's a neat find for me.
I do genealogy research as a hobby, and looked up "J. Chery" in the census of 1900 and 1910. Nothing under that name, but when I checked under the name Cherry, I found Julius Cherry, age 29, an immigrant from Austria, living at 614 Light St. in the 1910 Census. Apparently he owned a confectionary (bakery and/or candy store) at the address on the token from about 1906 until 1910 (from Baltimore directories). In 1911 the store is now listed as selling "mens furnishings". In 1912 he is located at a different address. So the token must have been issued between 1906 and 1911.
These tokens seem to be more common in the west and midwest for some reason, but it's a neat find for me.
