Medal? fob? or what?!

[oddcoins]

I recently bought several exonumia items from a metal detectorist. This one is interesting . . . not sure if it is considered a medal, or fob, or what? I was going to list it on the on-line token database, but I am not sure how to describe the planchet shape!
It is made of brass and it measures 31 millimeters wide, and is 34 millimeters tall (including the hole for suspension).
DEERE & MANSUR COMPANY / DISCS, / PLANTERS, / ETC. / MOLINE, ILL. // (image of a dear/buck).

Anyone have any info on this piece?

Thank you!,
Neil

 

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[BIGSCOTT]

I am assuming the predesecor of John Deere

 

[BIGSCOTT]

My grandfather was the first, dealer to carry moline tractors in oklahoma, even before they had
sit down tractors, he carried Moline walk behind tractors.

 

[jewelerguy]

watch fob from probably late 1890's before John Deere became their own company. Evidently a rare piece that's worth some money. I found one on the net that had sold for $650 bucks.... https://girardbid.com/servlet/List....next&categoryId=&filter=&showThumbNails=false

 

[ToddsPoint]

The elk image is a classic used often in the early 1900's. The original painting is called "Monarch of the Glen". Gary

 

[Tony in SC]

Deere and Mansur was established in 1877 to build corn planters. Mansur and Deere merged into Deere & Co in 1911. After 1912 it was just Deere & Co.

 

[Oddjob]

watch fob from probably late 1890's before John Deere became their own company. Evidently a rare piece that's worth some money. I found one on the net that had sold for $650 bucks.... https://girardbid.com/servlet/List....next&categoryId=&filter=&showThumbNails=false

Nice one.

 

[Mackaydon]

As Tony recapped above........

Some history:In 1877, Charles Deere, John Deere’s son, and Alvah Mansur, a business partner of the Deeres for nearly 20 years, established the Deere & Mansur Company to manufacture planters.

Deere was also vice president of Deere & Company at the time, but the new planter business operated separately from his father’s plow company.

Deere & Mansur was acquired by Deere and Company in 1911. The most visible difference was the change of the company’s name from Deere & Mansur Company to Deere & Mansur Works.

Then, if my math is correct, your relic was made between 1877 and 1911.
Don.,

 

[oddcoins]

WOW ~ THANK YOU for all the responses! This is a much better piece than I realized!

 

[BIGSCOTT]

What else did you buy?