found last winter

[Conito@55]

I found it last winter. It was stored for 7 months, yesterday I cleaned it with electrolysis. and this was my surprise

 

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[sibbley]

Wow, that turned out great! If I may ask a question. How were you able to wait 7 months to clean it? I don't know if I could wait 7 minutes to see what it was!

 

[Conito@55]

Wow, that turned out great! If I may ask a question. How were you able to wait 7 months to clean it? I don't know if I could wait 7 minutes to see what it was!

because the mud looked like concrete, and he didn't have the money to buy an electrolysis machine.

 

[robertk]

It's hell to be poor, so the person got a token for a cigar ... and lost it.

Nice find.

 

[pepperj]

Wow, that turned out great! If I may ask a question. How were you able to wait 7 months to clean it? I don't know if I could wait 7 minutes to see what it was!

I've got things that decades old, and not cleaned yet.

So I tip the hat to the quick turnaround on the cleaning. 🤣

Awesome token, congrats 👏

 

[xr7ator]

Cool token!

 

[Bucket Lister]

Love it. Too bad there's often no dates on tokens.

"IT'S HELL TO BE POOR" was a slogan common to many tokens, possibly going as far back as Hard Times tokens (ca. 1833-1843), though this token appears to be from the early 20th C.

Lots of embossed metal sign advertising for Baxter's, but haven't found anything on the tokens.

 

[Conito@55]

Love it. Too bad there's often no dates on tokens.

"IT'S HELL TO BE POOR" was a slogan common to many tokens, possibly going as far back as Hard Times tokens (ca. 1833-1843), though this token appears to be from the early 20th C.

Lots of embossed metal sign advertising for Baxter's, but haven't found anything on the tokens.

I found this token in a ghost town. It started in 1900, it is possible it is from that time

 

[Nathan W]

Nice token!

 

[Conito@55]

Nice token!

Thank you

 

[CreekSide]

I don’t know what it’s like to be rich. I’m used to being poor 😃

 

[tamrock]

I don’t know what it’s like to be rich. I’m used to being poor 😃

Get yourself a good cigar. It'll make you feel like a million bucks.

 

[Bucket Lister]

Get yourself a good cigar. It'll make you feel like a million bucks.

Green & wrinkled? 😲😁🤣

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

A very nice Token - congrats !

It's very easy to make a homemade Electrolysis Bath - for around $2.00 or $3.00.
I've cleaned hundreds of pieces with mine and have gotten very good results.
I use a plastic coffee can - a used telephone or game charger - two alligator clips and a steel washer.
There are Youtube video's you can watch on how to build and use one.

 

[Conito@55]

A very nice Token - congrats !

It's very easy to make a homemade Electrolysis Bath - for around $2.00 or $3.00.
I've cleaned hundreds of pieces with mine and have gotten very good results.
I use a plastic coffee can - a used telephone or game charger - two alligator clips and a steel washer.
There are Youtube video's you can watch on how to build and use one.

That's what I did yesterday. Now I have an electrolysis machine. Thanks for the information

 

[Red-Coat]

Cool token, and great job on the cleaning.

Underneath the “IT’S HELL TO BE POOR” slogan, it says “THE GREENDUCK CO.” in tiny letters, which was the token manufacturer (in Chicago). They were established in 1906, so that’s the earliest date for the token. It’s from their early history since, later, they split their company name into two words as “GREEN DUCK”.

The Baxter Cigar Company was based in Denver and owned by R. Y. Baxter, who retired from cigar manufacturing in 1911.

 

[Conito@55]

Cool token, and great job on the cleaning.

Underneath the “IT’S HELL TO BE POOR” slogan, it says “THE GREENDUCK CO.” in tiny letters, which was the token manufacturer (in Chicago). They were established in 1906, so that’s the earliest date for the token. It’s from their early history since, later, they split their company name into two words as “GREEN DUCK”.

The Baxter Cigar Company was based in Denver and owned by R. Y. Baxter, who retired from cigar manufacturing in 1911.

excellent to know that. thank you so much

 

[Bucket Lister]

The Baxter Cigar Company was based in Denver and owned by R. Y. Baxter, who retired from cigar manufacturing in 1911.

Do you happen to know if the company continued after 1911? Several advertising items purport to be from the 1930s.

I also found a reference to "Roper & Baxter Cigar Co., Chicago, IL" but I think that may have pre-dated "Baxter Cigar Company".

 

[Red-Coat]

Do you happen to know if the company continued after 1911? Several advertising items purport to be from the 1930s.

I also found a reference to "Roper & Baxter Cigar Co., Chicago, IL" but I think that may have pre-dated "Baxter Cigar Company".

That I don’t know, but I have a 1923 business directory for Denver and the Baxter company isn’t listed. I think some of the sellers for advertising paraphernalia are guessing the dates for what they have, and some say the company was in Victor, Colorado not Denver. They seem to have had agents in Victor and advertised widely there since it was at the tail-end of it’s mining boom in the early 1900s. But as far as I know it was a Denver company, as said in this ad for another of their brands [the ‘electric fish’ referred to below was a novelty made from cellophane that moves around in your hand as a result of static electricity]:

After retiring from the cigar industry, Robert Y. Baxter seems to have gone into the hotel business and commissioned the construction of the Baxter Hotel in Denver, which opened in 1912 (renamed the Rossonian Hotel in 1929).

As I said, the token itself is from before “Greenduck” changed to “Green Duck”, which I think was in the early 1930s. The company name was originally intended as one word (derived from the names of its founders, George Greenburg & Henry Duckgeischel) but so often expressed by customers as two words that they ultimately restyled the name as “Green Duck”.

Roper & Baxter was a wholesaler of cigars in Chicago, which went bust in 1895. I saw one eBay seller claiming his “Baxter’s Drum” item was from Roper & Baxter, but I think he’s mistaken. The two companies had no connection as far as I know.

 

[Conito@55]

That I don’t know, but I have a 1923 business directory for Denver and the Baxter company isn’t listed. I think some of the sellers for advertising paraphernalia are guessing the dates for what they have, and some say the company was in Victor, Colorado not Denver. They seem to have had agents in Victor and advertised widely there since it was at the tail-end of it’s mining boom in the early 1900s. But as far as I know it was a Denver company, as said in this ad for another of their brands [the ‘electric fish’ referred to below was a novelty made from cellophane that moves around in your hand as a result of static electricity]:

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After retiring from the cigar industry, Robert Y. Baxter seems to have gone into the hotel business and commissioned the construction of the Baxter Hotel in Denver, which opened in 1912 (renamed the Rossonian Hotel in 1929).

As I said, the token itself is from before “Greenduck” changed to “Green Duck”, which I think was in the early 1930s. The company name was originally intended as one word (derived from the names of its founders, George Greenburg & Henry Duckgeischel) but so often expressed by customers as two words that they ultimately restyled the name as “Green Duck”.

Roper & Baxter was a wholesaler of cigars in Chicago, which went bust in 1895. I saw one eBay seller claiming his “Baxter’s Drum” item was from Roper & Baxter, but I think he’s mistaken. The two companies had no connection as far as I know.