Token Finds in a neighbors yard

[Bell-Two]

My neighbor across the street invited me to hunt his yard, since his house is from the 70's I did not expect much, found some clad but I also found a couple of tokens.

The first was a Gatlinburg Tennessee Ski lift token the other was marked The Harvard Automatic Machine Company, Jamestown New York. This company made the tokens and machines where you could customize tokens with your name a "Good Luck" type token. I found this reference to the company in an add in a 1946 Billboard magazine. Link will take you to the page the add is on the bottom right.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Ch...tomatic machine co jamestown new york&f=false

 

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[daytondigger]

Always cool to find the unexpected. What's on the other side of the Gatlinburg token?

 

[PBK]

Neat stuff!

Here's a 1923 patent drawing for the letter-punch machine token. The original design called for a suspension hole (#17 in the drawing), but was later modified to the star-cutout version that you found.



Link to a photo of the 1923 Harvard Automatic Machine Co. "Harvard Metal Stamper" in which these token blanks were used:

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=12837

 

[JJS NEW ENGLAND]

nice finds, that was nice of them. i like to find tokens. they catch you by surprise. hh

 

[allen]

good job on those neat tokens !!!

 

[Ricky1601 aka pull tab king]

neat I love finding old tokens........thanks for sharing and hh.