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Valued Member
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Has anyone seen this before? The reverse is blank. 20mm  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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dar, I couldn't find anything in Rulau or on tokencatalog.com
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Bedrock of the Community
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Wow, not sure how that did not turn up in my searches.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Valued Member
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Don'tfeel bad, I didn't find it in my searches either.
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Valued Member
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After 2 1/2 years I have finally identified this. It is a Fogg & Hires cannery token from New Jersey. Similar to this one from Tokencatalog.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Sweet! Congratulations on the attribution, dar.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Thank you for the update.  |
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Excellent identification (finally) |
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Nice! Glad to have more certainty on this one. Is the denomination in bass?  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Valued Member
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I have seen cannery tokens denominated in bushels and buckets so I'm not sure which this is.
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Pillar of the Community
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A quick AI search yielded this - I assume this one is bushel based on the results below. A fantastic example. " Quote:
The 'B' in the denomination "1B" on a Fogg & Hires Co. token stands for bushel.
These tokens were likely used as "pickers' tokens" by the Fogg & Hires cannery (located in Hancocks Bridge, New Jersey) to record the amount of produce, specifically a bushel of fruit or vegetables, picked by farm workers. Workers would then exchange these tokens for payment.
Fogg & Hires Co. used several denominations besides the bushel tokens for measuring pickers' work. The other known tokens include those for smaller quantities such as:
-Quarts
-Pints
-Baskets
-Bushels
These tokens were typically made of materials like copper, brass, or aluminum and were simply stamped with the canner's initials ("F & H Co." or similar) and the abbreviation for the denomination (e.g., "1 Qt", "1 Pt", "1 Bsk", "1 B"). They were a practical way for canneries to track piecework without extensive record-keeping, as workers exchanged the physical tokens for cash on payday. |
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