👀Today's Finds👀

StonedOregonhunter

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Hunted about 5hrs this morning, early before the heat!! The site was a old 1855 home and the address is **** ****** ** ********, OR!!!:laughing7: I found a cool 1905 Portland Fair pin I believe, about 6 inches in roots. Also some old shot gun shells (UMC No 16 New Club and Winchester Blue Rival No 10). Found a play coin from chicken little as well!
(1905 Portland Oregon fair was the Lewis and Clark centennial)

Hope you enjoyed today's Finds! HH
 

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pretty cool finds, congrats
 

Nice finds !! Congrats !!
 

I just adore the fair token.
 

Cool old token thingy. Chicken Little money? Really, COOL! I hope your old home sight brings you even cooler old goodies.:headbang:
 

Cool old token thingy. Chicken Little money? Really, COOL! I hope your old home sight brings you even cooler old goodies.:headbang:

Hey Kurios1, thanks! From my understanding chicken Little is a folklore and turned into books and games. I actually got some information on this play coin from A past post on Tnet. Oh and I was going to message you and see if you knew there's another gentleman from Dixon on here he goes by DigginDave, thought you might want to know. HH
 

Nice finds! Have you deciphered the name on the Token? I see Howard but can't make out the rest -

thanks for posting!!!
 

Congratualtions on the cool relics! :occasion14:
 

Nice finds! Have you deciphered the name on the Token? I see Howard but can't make out the rest -

thanks for posting!!!

Yeah it is "J Howard Taylor Columbia SD" did a quick Google search and found he was a pharmacist in 1905 in Columbia South Dakota. Pretty cool!

Thanks for the post HH
 

Hunted about 5hrs this morning, early before the heat!! The site was a old 1855 home and the address is **** ****** ** ********, OR!!!:laughing7: I found a cool 1905 Portland Fair pin I believe, about 6 inches in roots. Also some old shot gun shells (UMC No 16 New Club and Winchester Blue Rival No 10). Found a play coin from chicken little as well!
(1905 Portland Oregon fair was the Lewis and Clark centennial)

Hope you enjoyed today's Finds! HH

Update: I found out a little more information about the token, here is a reply from Oregon historical society:

Thank you for your email. We have a few of these in our museum collection, all with different names engraved. I believe these were a commemorative token sold at the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition and Oriental Fair of 1905 in Portland. I think visitors could pay and request their names be added to the souvenir. For more information, you could research the fair and its souvenirs. Our research library may be a good place to start: http://librarycatalog.ohs.org/EOSWebOPAC/

Best of luck!
Nicole Yasuhara
Collections Manager
Oregon Historical Society
 

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