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1867 William D. Grimshaw / Thomas Prosser & Sons, New York, Miller NY-105 / Wright 405, 39mm Diameter, White Metal, R-5.

This has always been refereed to as a W.D. Grimshaw token, however Thomas Prosser was the proprietor located at 15 Gold Street.

Thomas Prossor was the distributor of Grimshaw's High Speed Air Hammer press and his store card token was actually struck on the Air Hammer featured on the obverse.

Grimshaw's Air Hammer was capable of 150-420 blows per minutes at the time of patent in 1865 and by 1867 adjustable between 100-800.

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I missed out on this exact token shown far below 2 years ago and immediately started researching it heavily.

This store card was already considered Rarity-5 by Benjamin Wright in 1901 and today is far more difficult to locate then it's rarity level in any condition.

Along with the cleaned corroded lower grade example shown directly below which was the best Russel Rulau could find to plate in his book on U.S. Trade Cards I know of only of two other survivors.

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Here is the finest example known which I immediately purchased when it became available again.

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