A Blast from the Past from Philadelphia
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Great advertising. At least that infant did not puke on your token because its in great condition, I like it!
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Cool find
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Really nice advertising artifacts.
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Now listen boy, I'm tryin' to teach you sumthin' . . . . that ain't no optical illusion, it only looks like an optical illusion.
My mind reader refuses to charge me....
Very nice! I ran them through the newspaper archives - the first ad was July 1, 1865 with a few reviews.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83032103/1865-07-01/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1777&sort=date&rows=20&words=DOBBINS+ELECTRIC+SOAP&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=0&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=Dobbins+Electric+Soap&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
They had daily and weekly ads in many papers until October 1866 when this full page advertisement appeared - I guess back then, this would be like an infomercial today - business must have been good. 10 years later they would have released your token.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025925/1866-10-09/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=1777&index=0&rows=20&words=DOBBINS+ELECTRIC+SOAP&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1963&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
"You Suck Award" - February, 2015
Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
Very cool to tie these advertising items together.
Where do you plug it in?
Beautiful. Reminiscent of WW Denslow (Wizard of Oz) of the same period, assuming these are roughly 1880.
--Severian the Lame
Great token and cards to go along with it!
What the heck is 'electric soap'???? Anybody know what is was?? Cheers, RickO
After Reading this thread this Philly guy just wants to do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmMQfTJ3gYk&t=21s
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Awesome pickup!
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
Nice addition to the Libertas Americana collection. Always good to add associated pieces to these tokens like the cards you posted.
Really makes the history come alive
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Trivia: That address, 116 S. 4th Street, doesn't exist anymore, I think it's part of Independence National Park and is close to where the Second National Bank building is located.
Do you have card no.3?
Yes! It is shown as the 6th and 7th images above.
Love the set of cards! And the token!