1920s Token with "Good Luck" Swastika

[CladMoonRising]

Found this token along a small rural creek that ran through an abandoned lot. The area caught my attention because there were a few non-native trees that looked intentionally planted. When I got home and researched it, I found there was a house on the lot up until the 70's and it's been vacant ever since. I found the token where the house's back yard would have backed up against the creek.

The token is from Worcester Salt Company and it was produced sometime around the 1920's. I'm now a certified member of the "Don't Worry Club!"

 

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[CMDiamonddawg]

Very kool good luck piece or token .

 

[Carolina Tom]

Very nice!

Excelsior Shoe Co. made one like it. You got it when you bought Boy Scout shoes.

Best of luck to you!

 

[thrifty76now]

Quite a number of establishments had similar tokens produced with that good luck motif .I only found one that had the saying ' MEMBER OF THE DON'T WORRY CLUB on it. All of them are about the size of those old large cents. Is there a book out that shows these?

 

[Mackaydon]

Some history:

The Worcester Salt Co. was founded in Warsaw, New York in 1894 and and was absorbed
by Morton Salt in 1943. These tokens were made in the 1920's as CMR mentioned above, and were an advertising tool,a lucky pocket piece and a membership token for the "Don't Worry Club" all in one.
Yours once looked like this:

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Actually, there are several varieties of the Worcester token; some have 'wide sacks' --like yours--while other have (would you believe?) narrow sacks;like this:

There are other subtle different varieties created by the various manufacturers of these tokens; notably, The Bastian Bros (Rochester, NY), Greenduck Co.(Chicago) and the Whitehead & Hoag Co. (two sub-varieties) Newark, N.J.
Don........

 

[thrifty76now]

Carolina Tom, You are right about Excelsior shoe token. I have in my collection 5 slightly different ones in their stamping,and all have the same good luck sign on the reverse.

 

[xr7ator]

Cool token, thanks for sharing.

Don you're all over these tokens. Are you goiong to a specific site for reference?

HH ALL

 

[Mackaydon]

xr7ator and thrifty76now,

Yes, there is a good site that gets into the research of these swastika tokens.
Here's the page of the five varieties of the Excelsior Shoe token.
Good Luck Boy Scout Tokens from the Excelsior Shoe Company
Other swastika tokens can be reached from this same page, including the Worcester Salt token.
Don.....

 

[46Wheat]

Kool token . I love the history they represent

 

[wheatfinder13]

Good detective work with the trees and being able to tell there was a house there. Cool token too