"Charley Greets the Dawn"
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(This piece was the topic of an earlier thread along with one other, but since I ended up keeping both, I'm giving it its own thread to link to from my collection index.)
"Charley Greets the Dawn"
Pictorial love token on 1883 Seated Liberty dime
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Obverse: original Seated Liberty design, unaltered. Reverse: "Charley" in script above ornamental diagonal band, landscape with sunrise behind a mountain lake. Ex- "yoyolz", eBay, 11/03/2015.
This is a nice well-excuted pictorial landscape. I bought this piece at the same time as I acquired another landscape dime with the name "Jennie" on it. "Jennie" featured a seascape/beach scene and had a similar diagonal band in the design, though the two pieces were obviously carved by different artists at different times.
"Jennie" was reasonably priced, but "Charley", this piece, had a rather bloated pricetag. I had already bought "Jennie" so when it seemed the seller of this piece and I would not find common ground, I was not unduly disappointed. However, to my surprise, the seller relented and accepted my offer on this, so I ended up with both coins.
Since my collection is intended as a type set, I really don't need two Seated dimes, but I decided to keep both of them anyway. As the Seated Liberty dime was by far the most common host coin for American love tokens, I guess it was inevitable that I'd end up with two or more of them in my set, despite only needing one to represent that type. But hey, there are worse things to have duplicates of, right? And in any event, since love tokens are all as individual as snowflakes, one could argue they aren't really "duplicates" at all.
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"Charley Greets the Dawn"
Pictorial love token on 1883 Seated Liberty dime
Larger obverse picture
Larger reverse picture
Obverse: original Seated Liberty design, unaltered. Reverse: "Charley" in script above ornamental diagonal band, landscape with sunrise behind a mountain lake. Ex- "yoyolz", eBay, 11/03/2015.
This is a nice well-excuted pictorial landscape. I bought this piece at the same time as I acquired another landscape dime with the name "Jennie" on it. "Jennie" featured a seascape/beach scene and had a similar diagonal band in the design, though the two pieces were obviously carved by different artists at different times.
"Jennie" was reasonably priced, but "Charley", this piece, had a rather bloated pricetag. I had already bought "Jennie" so when it seemed the seller of this piece and I would not find common ground, I was not unduly disappointed. However, to my surprise, the seller relented and accepted my offer on this, so I ended up with both coins.
Since my collection is intended as a type set, I really don't need two Seated dimes, but I decided to keep both of them anyway. As the Seated Liberty dime was by far the most common host coin for American love tokens, I guess it was inevitable that I'd end up with two or more of them in my set, despite only needing one to represent that type. But hey, there are worse things to have duplicates of, right? And in any event, since love tokens are all as individual as snowflakes, one could argue they aren't really "duplicates" at all.
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Lord M......do you agree with the theory that most carvers probably prepared pieces like this in advance in their down time with the name panel blank, and then when they had a customer at the county fair or whatever just added the name and delivered the piece to the customer?
TD
I suppose it's obvious, but it seems to me that the more typical the carving, the more likely it was done by a prolific carver, and the more likely the names were added at the point of sale.
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Lord M......do you agree with the theory that most carvers probably prepared pieces like this in advance in their down time with the name panel blank, and then when they had a customer at the county fair or whatever just added the name and delivered the piece to the customer?
TD
I suppose it's obvious, but it seems to me that the more typical the carving, the more likely it was done by a prolific carver, and the more likely the names were added at the point of sale.
Yes, I can certainly agree with that.
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