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I need help with this token. Any help is appreciated. It looks like a sort of stock token, made in NY, so I'm guessing there must be others with other locations.  |
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Interesting.
Token made in NY for Canadian us with a US flag in the center.
Looks like a carnival "punch-it-yourself" piece.
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Hey, that makes a lot of sense. I wonder if E. A. Day is a person instead of a holiday (as I was thinking) then? Anyone have any info on the "punch-it-yourself" tokens?
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Yes they are like the penny squishing machines. Almost every carnival had one in their arcade.I have posted a number of them in the past on this forum. And yes you are correct in that E A Day is the name they punched in. Unless there was some other reason for the town to have some day with two long words since there is a limited number of spaces to punch in.
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How would you search for similar tokens on ebay (I assume there must be a bunch of these floating around)? It never occurred to me that it would be a name. The interesting thing is that Day is my wife's paternal-side family name (her family is from Saint John), so maybe it's a relative! Any links or anything on age of these things? This was just given to me from another guy at the local coin club, it's not like it was in the family or anything. Edited by chequer
11/20/2014 2:43 pm
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They are called letter punch machine tags, They date from the early 20th century to now. Disney pirate coins are pewter almost all the others are aluminum. They fall into a few sub categories, Good luck tags, Tourist spot tags, World's fair tags, political candidate tags and the Disney pirate coins. You could also find them in small town depots. Some had good luck symbol in the center,or scene of the tourist spot, or mug of the political crook! They aren't really rare or valuable. ebay sellers will try to say they are no longer available but the machines are still sold buyer be aware! As there are millions of them made and out there. |
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Here are a couple of mine;   Top one the blank was loaded in backwards in the machine Edited by Circus
11/20/2014 5:11 pm
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This old thread has a couple more with differently-shaped planchets, including one I made myself in Toronto in 1983. Unfortunately, the machines that make these pieces have been around since at least the 1900s, so unless the person making it did what I did and actually included a date in their legend, there's no easy way to narrow down a date range for a particular piece. Even then, such a "year" might be the year the person making it was born, or got married, or whatever, not necessarily the actual year the medal was made. If there's a genealogist in your wife's family, maybe you could ask them if there's an "E.A. Day" she's related to. You never know. But we don't really know the back-story behind the making of this piece; maybe, like mine, it was made by a visitor to St John, a tourist who wasn't actually from there.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Thanks for the information.
Sap, your post has made me think this is a "newer" piece rather than older since the spelling of the city as "St. John" is something hugely frowned upon by locals today even though it was usually abbreviated in the late 1800s and early to mid 1900s. That being said, this is only relevant if a local made it. I'll have to see if there's anyone doing genealogy.
Thanks again.
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