A Continuing Thread ~ Post Your Tokens, Medals, Exonumia Acquisitions

Gorgeous medal yarm

Great Pitt medal. You have good taste!

That's pretty neat 999. Here's a news snippet from St. Joseph News-Press on 5/17/2019 and I found that actually mentions your token!

http://www.newspressnow.com/news/lo...ea80b94.html

Wardell Schoff retains a bit of memorabilia from that day, May 12, 1926.
His aunt, Gladys Schoff, had been local royalty of a sort, an attendant to the Air Mail Queen. Marie Hogan, crowned the previous night at a City Auditorium dance, reigned for this occasion.

Gladys saved from that day a couple of tokens struck in commemoration of the inaugural flight.
On one side, the coin-like casting read, "Air Mail," with the date and the city name. On the other, a relief showed the "Carrier Pigeon" bi-plane, made by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co., and the workhorse vehicle of aerial mailings.
Schoff, with his own interest in aviation, got the tokens from his late aunt and said the young women had sold them.
"I don't know what they collected the money for, but every organization, you know, has to have money," he said, noting the top-seller got to be queen.

"Aunt Gladys did not sell the most. ... She was a country girl from Stewartsville, so she wouldn't be exposed to selling these as much as some of them in St. Joe."
News clippings and photographs from the day also have been kept by Schoff. "We started digging in what we call the office and finally found them," laughs Shirley Schoff, his wife since 1955.
Air mail service had been sought by the business community in St. Joseph, including the Boosters Club of the local Chamber of Commerce, which sponsored the arrival eve dance.
One route for postal flights went from Chicago to Dallas, and National Air Transport, the contracted delivery service, chose St. Joseph as an intermediate stop.

The pilot, Paul E. Johnson, began the flight about 20 minutes late from Chicago, headed to Moline, Illinois, but he managed to get to what was then known as Rosecrans Municipal Air Field about 12 minutes early.
(Mechanics at the airport in French Bottoms told the News-Press that the plane had no fuel left in the tank.)

Queen Marie Hogan mounted a platform and christened the airplane by breaking a bottle of Missouri River water on the plane's propeller. Postmaster Elliot Marshall and various clerks and carriers brought 6,000 letters to be loaded into the plane.

Thanks, I found it. I honestly need to hold out buying stuff. We have the upcoming coin show in our locality.

Penny Guy - I hate trite phrases, but that is indeed "mind-blowing." Congratulations for going for it!

1936 Texas Centennial Souvenir
Weather-Bird Shoes Token

I am listing this with my World's Fair and Exposition medals because it mentions the 1936 Texas Centennial.
I have seen three somewhat similar children's shoe brands that all had 1936 Texas Centennial included on their medals.
Aside from Weather-bird, there was Red Goose and Poll Parrot medals.
These three may all have some common connection in the business.
All made other medals and promotional and dime store like toys and comic books for kids to get excited about.
Weather-bird brand shoes for children, using pictures of the Weather-Bird in advertising, were offered starting in 1901 by the St. Louis-based Peters Shoe Company, later part of International Shoe which continued to base the brand's image of the Weather-bird until 1932.The brand itself continued at least through the 1950's.

1813 Nova Scotia Trade and Navigation Half Penny Token NS-20A3




Pure copper preferable to paper.

New to my infant collection of NYWF, an Encased Cent NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR / STORK CLUB.

The spotting on the reverse is much less severe than the image shows.