I can only blame Zoins for this purchase!
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@Zoins posted this a few weeks back. I had the opportunity on Instagram to buy one last year but passed on it.
But after seeing his thread I just had to go looking for one!
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Warning.....looking into this dudes eyes can give you a crazy feeling. But you get a truck load of good luck 
Have no clue as to who and when this was made.
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Awesome! It reminds me of the film Le Voyage Dans la Lun (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès (1902)
Or also by him "La lune à un mètre," in 1898
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"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
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That’s what I thought about when I first saw this last year.....lol
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Way cool. ⭐️
Nice!
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Wow! That's a beautiful specimen Stef! Congrats!
That is very cool.... I like that token. Weird looking dude...but makes me chuckle. Cheers, RickO
The makers logo is below the bow but I can't make it out, AMD Co? I bet @tokenpro knows better. Peace Roy
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To me it looks like a large C with AMD / Co inside but I am not familiar with that signature or an AMD Co. as well. It puzzled me enough that I got in touch with good friend Dave Schenkman who keeps the best master list of die sinkers that I know but he had nothing on this signature either.
Both of these dies are stock dies that were made by Schwaab Stamp & Stencil Co. of Milwaukee and were used as reverses on a number of storecards made by Schwaab S. & S.. Schwaab also used the Aint It Hell reverse on one of their own die sinker advertising storecards. Greenduck of Chicago produced a very similar die but with proper English -- It's Hell To Be Poor around a similar face. I believe that both are Depression Era issues as the themes, die work & fabric all fit that period.
My only guess on the C-AMD Co. signature is that the company had Schwaab produce the tokens and C-AMD Co. tried to market them à la the Billiken tokens from earlier in the last century but I don't even have much faith in that theory.
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