On eBay Pcgs 1861 dog tag blank
Musky1011
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Not mine..
Anyone ever see one of the much less collect them?
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http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistr...dset.aspx?s=68269&ac=1">Musky 1861 Mint Set
Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA
http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistr...dset.aspx?s=68269&ac=1">Musky 1861 Mint Set
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Never seen it, but it checks out:
https://www.pcgs.com/cert/36062109
--Severian the Lame
Wow, interesting, never saw one before !!!
Cool, but what makes it a dog tag? Vs a love token, etc.
Not uncommon and they tend to bring strong prices. I'm guessing there is crossover appeal.
Pretty sure these were privately purchased with the specific purpose of body identification. Not something a soldier would carve and send to his honey bunch.
I haven't seen it in years, but this is a great episode of American Experience dealing with death in the American Civil War. Extremely eye opening and shocking to see how there was just no ability and planning to deal with the incredible numbers of dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve5oWZryRck
Looks to have been guilded at one time. Cool.
I still have mine.
bob
Mucho cool!
When we were kids an old captain of the ferries that ran the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers gave us some brass luggage tags with the names of the boats on them.
Which of course my mother threw away when I moved out.
Open the link. It's not a coin.
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Very interesting.
Then - it was the Soldier who wanted to be identified if died
Now - the government/family wants to identify Soldier if s/he dies
http://www.ephemerasociety.org/blog/?p=1104
Before going into battle soldiers would frequently write their name and home town on a piece of paper and put it in their pocket just in case.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
That was a personal ID used by soldiers long before official dog tags were issued by the military. This one survived without being engraved. I still have my dog tags from my Navy time...Will not part with them...That being said, I bet there is a collector segment for these. The list BIN would indicate that. Cheers, RickO
Cool - enjoyed the movie as well!
"In the days when military secrets were not so secret, such badges openly proclaimed not only the soldier’s rank, but also his regiment and often his corps and division. These badges fell into three categories: identification disks with die-stamped information, identification badges with engraved inscriptions, and corps badges that displayed the same information but within the shape of one of the various army corps symbols."
Businesses stamped and sold the blanks, and local jewelers punched or engraved a soldier's information.
In checking HA, they sell for a lot less as blanks, bring strong money if engraved.
I have a fully engraved one that a Vermont Civl War soldier gave to his wife or girlfriend before he shipped out. The engraved ones are worth more than the blank pieces.
These pieces are not prohibitively rare, but they are worth at least several hundred dollars if they are not too beat-up.
I imagine that it would be difficult to tell when the tag was actually engraved. I can see someone getting an unengraved tag and then engraving it to enhance its value. Of course the engraving would have to be artificially aged in some way.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire