S.S.C. Co. tag

[McCDig]

Got this tag today in Baltimore City. Not certain what Company used the S.S.C. Co. designation. I've seen an online example of a brass tag with a larger hole and the same company designation but with more modern numbers and letters than this one. That example was purportedly for a mining company. Anyone seen one like this before?
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Found this link to Maryland Merchants https://archive.org/stream/marylandmerchant1999mary/marylandmerchant1999mary_djvu.txt
I do not find S.S.C. Co. in this list.

Here's a possibility that links this tag to a coal mining company in the United States. I did a search on "Southern States Coal Company" and found this article that appeared in the Nashville Union and American on 28 July 1875. . Now I don't know that this company actually used the logo "S.S.C. Co", but the link is plausible. How the tag got to Baltimore is another mystery.

 

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[nhbenz]

I’ll bet the C was Canning, being in Maryland.

 

[Tony in SC]

Don't know the company but looks like a tool check out tag.

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Ben. Still searching.

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Tony. That's likely. Detailing of the 6 and 4 looks old to me.

 

[A2coins]

Any luck with a positive Id my friend

 

[McCDig]

Hey Tommy, nothing further on this beauty. You know how it is with detecting, you're usually not the first person to dig one, but this remains a 'head scratcher'.

 

[lairmo]

Just a guess: Some sort of (S.?) Stage Coach Company baggage tag..like a railroad tag...?

 

[A2coins]

I f I were you I call it the stage coach tag that's sounds awesome!!!!