Got old dog tags?

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ISALC ~ International Society of Animal License Collectors ~ is always wanting to update our O.K. (Oldest Known) tag list for every City, Township, County, and State.

PLEASE feel free to e-mail me if you have old dog tags (not military ID tags) ~ I can check the list to see if you're holding the O.K. tag (send along pictures)! Or, e-mail me and I can tell you the O.K. tag for a certain area.

Sorry, our list isn't "on-line".

[email protected]

Neil McElroy (ISALC member #546)

PS,
all O.K. are not necessarily that old. Some towns are so small that we have NO tags reported for them. We wanna know about ALL areas.
 

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here are ones for a couple yrs ago..........1928 Van Wert Ohio, 1936 Van Wert, and 1930 in the shape of a dog head, my favorite one!
 

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Goes4ever said:
here are ones for a couple yrs ago..........1928 Van Wert Ohio, 1936 Van Wert, and 1930 in the shape of a dog head, my favorite one!

YEAH!! That's what I'm talkin' about! SO COOL!! I'll trade tokens/coins/jewelry for tags anyday!

I looked up Van Wert Ohio ~ their oldest known tag is 1918! OK man. . . . now get out there and dig one earlier than 1918! LOL

Thanks for sharing!
Neil
 

Got several here for my hometown of Mena Arkansas....oldest one is a 5 pointed star with a date of 1905....several from the forties,fifties....havent seen anymore of these anywhere.....town was established in 1897....
 

Pudsbrat said:
Got several here for my hometown of Mena Arkansas....oldest one is a 5 pointed star with a date of 1905....several from the forties,fifties....havent seen anymore of these anywhere.....town was established in 1897....

WOW ~ very cool!

The 1905 Mena Arkansas tag is the oldest known for that town. The oldest known tags in Arkansas are dated 1887 ~ from Little Rock and Alma. SO COOL!
 

Hello everybody!!! Here is one from Erie,PA.Erie County 1913...I got a few more from erie and other PA towns,once i find them i'll post or send to email listed.HH ALL !!!
 

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tokenhead said:
Hello everybody!!! Here is one from Erie,PA.Erie County 1913...I got a few more from erie and other PA towns,once i find them i'll post or send to email listed.HH ALL !!!
Another from Cameron Co.PA.
 

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tokenhead said:
tokenhead said:
Hello everybody!!! Here is one from Erie,PA.Erie County 1913...I got a few more from erie and other PA towns,once i find them i'll post or send to email listed.HH ALL !!!
Another from Cameron Co.PA.

Very cool ~ THANKS for sharing! The OK (oldest known) tags for Erie County and Cameron County are both dated 1908! The oldest OK tag for all of PA is from Meadville ~ 1875!!

Did you notice that the Erie Co. tag reads 'DOG TAX', but the Cameron Co. doesn't? I've noticed that alot of the PA counties don't mention 'dog tax' nor 'dog license' on the tag! WEIRD!!! I have a 1917 Lancaster Co. "Dog Tax" with no serial number, but my 1945 Allegheny Co. PA tag has a huge serial number #9738, but doesn't mention 'dog tag' nor 'dog license'.

Cool stuff!
 

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I only posted my oldest from each city
1905 Marquette MI
1916 Superior, WI
1928 Duluth, MN
 

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Sorry, just realizes I have one more since you count counties as separate from cities
Douglas County WI 1934
 

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Here are two I dug years ago when I lived in Illinois. The first is Dewitt Co., Ill. (doesn't show the state)
 

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San Diego
1934-35
Rabies Vaccination
 

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Fort Dodge, Iowa
Rabies Tag
Age unknown
Found in San Diego
 

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Had another one that I had to clean up because it had too many blisters on it.
Kind of a bummer to have to clean it, but it does look better than it did.
 

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Yes, I do. Too late to post them now, got to go to work. I'll post them tonight. Got a nice pewter dog's prayer too.
 

Fast_Dave said:
I only posted my oldest from each city
1905 Marquette MI
1916 Superior, WI
1928 Duluth, MN

WOW ~ nice finds man! WOOHOO!!

Here's the oldest known tags listed for those cities:

1904 Marquette MI
1894 Superior WI
1889 Duluth MN
 

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