U. S. Government / Treasury Department Token From The Columbian Exposition Of 1893

I have two of these, one my father collected years ago, another one I located some time ago.

They are popular with certain collectors like myself...

They show up on ebay now and then. Probably just a good a place as any to find additional ones to add to your collection. Happy hunting!

Carrs, Heritage Auctions has an upcoming auction of Tokens and Medals. Quite a few So-called Dollars, tokens, etc. from the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
https://coins.ha.com/c/search-resul...Title-071713

well. thats cool. thanks for thinking of me hondo! now I have some more stuff to learn bout.

thank you for telling me about that reference. I didnt see any copies available on any of the easy places. ill dig into that. I was able to find the auction catalog from the nathan eglit collection though. that should be interesting to look through.

im not really sure where I'm going with exploring the columbian expo. its a new thing for me to learn about and I'm pretty much a complete novice in that area.

i inherited this clock from my grandmother a number of years ago. I had always thought it was beautiful and love clocks and clockwork. some of our relatives lived in the chicago area during the expo.


more recently I found this newspaper article from the sept 8 1966 edition of the Moline Dispatch (Illinois). it was with some of my grandmothers other things. it says the clock was an award for a commissioner of the expo and describes the clock in detail.


so now I'm trying to learn more about this. who was this comissioner. am I related to them? what was the prize for? can I verify that this clock is the clock in the article? is the article accurate? that kind of stuff.

in addition to the token my girlfriend also got me this guide book for the expo. its in pretty rough shape so I will need to do some book repair before reading it. it has maps and some interesting images. I'm excited to read it but I have to be patient for now.

Speaking of the 1893 expo, I lived with a guy who was a piano tuner and a projectionist and he own the piano used in the opening ceremony of the worlds fair. This was the must stunningly carved piano! The Smithsonian wanted it but he refused to sell back in 1982. He was offered $1.3 million. I can't imagine what its worth now. He lived in a very simple small home with 9 pianos filling the place up.

wow.

i kinda hope that doesn't happen here. a million bucks is a lot of money. I dont want to have to have a debate about keeping my nanas clock.

i had a clock mover handle it a couple times. I didnt feel comfortable moving it on my own. this was before I heard about a potential columbian expo connection. he was really interested in buying it. we didnt talk numbers. his interest clued me in to the fact that I what I had was not what he was typically handling.