A Die marker Advertising Token and the Die Used to Make the Reverse
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Here is a 20th century merchant advertising token and the reverse die that was used to make it.
August Frank was born in Germany in 1864. He immigrated to The United States in 1893 and opened a die making business the following year. Frank was active until his death in 1946. His family continued the business until the early 1970s when it closed. The Metallic Art Company bought out its assets at that time.
August Frank was born in Germany in 1864. He immigrated to The United States in 1893 and opened a die making business the following year. Frank was active until his death in 1946. His family continued the business until the early 1970s when it closed. The Metallic Art Company bought out its assets at that time.
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Apparently the company sold off the medal business in 1972 and continued with the sprinkler manufacturing business.
Interesting story about how Don Schwartz bought the business and took delivery of the dies.
<< <i>August C. Frank Company. This medallic firm in Philadelphia, founded 1894, was purchased by Don Schwartz September 11, 1972. The third generation owners wanted to keep part of the business (sprinkler manufacturing) but wanted to sell off the medal business. Schwartz contracted for the shipment of all the dies to Medallic Art’s plant in Danbury.
The trucker emptied all the dies into 55-gallon drums and loaded these on his flat bed truck. He finished on a Friday and delivered the shipment on Monday. Unfortunately it snowed over the weekend. The open drums were filled with snow which melted and the drums contained water in addition to the metal dies.
I had the chore to inventory the dies. Fortunately, Medallic Art hired a retired August Frank employee, William Neithercott, to assist me. We commandeered the heat treating department, dumped out the water-soaked dies on the floor and picked up rusted dies, brushing off the rust until we could identify the design on the dies. We placed similar dies in cardboard boxes, until we could match obverse and reverse. We filled hundreds of cardboard boxes, mostly labeled with topical subjects of the die’s design. >>
Neat die, too.
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<< <i>Very cool piece of exonumia, Mr. Jones. There was a cool civil war token die from Scoville Manufacturing Co. in Steve Hayden's auction last year. Kind of regret not "going for it." >>
I went for it, but was the under bidder. Now the guy who got it knows who ran him up. I do own a CWT die that was used to strike one of the Lincoln tokens.
<< <i>Very cool! Didn't Robert Bashlow use the August Frank company to strike the CSA cent and half dollar "restrikes"? >>
Bashlow used August C. Frank Company for at least the CSA cent and Continental Dollar restrikes according to the Bashlow Continental Dollar brochure:
<< <i>The August C. Frank Co. of Philadelphia has struck this entire issue with the same exacting precision and brilliant skill applied to Lovett's Confederate Cent. >>