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Show Big Mystery: Who Has Collection of Early-Day Merchant Tokens? By Joe J. Davich IN THE YEARofl967,Istart-ed YEARofl967,Istart-ed my correspondence with Mr. George Gould, another token collector who at that time did reside in California. For the general collector its a necessity neces-sity to communicate with other collectors, exchange information, informa-tion, tokens; plus the good will it brings. Mr. Gould informed me that several years ago he made a purchase of quite a grouping of Park City merchant tokens. They had been in a collection in Pasadena, California for some fifteen years before he purchased them. Never was able to obtain a full count or description des-cription of this collection, but in general gathered it was the largest Park City collection that could be found. But as time went by, he mailed mail-ed me some "rubbings" of several sev-eral and most interestingtokens from Park City. Thus far have never seen such tokens; as he did describe.- But am listing some of the merchants of Park City, that made use of them in the early 1900's. A CONFECTIONARY was owned by W. C. Jefford; Stewart Stew-art McPhee, the cigar maker; Manhatten Bar (owner unknown) George Wanning, a saloon keeper, keep-er, and Waters Bros, operators of a confectionary. On July 2, 1970, Mr. Gould stopped in Park City on his way to his new home in the State of Washington. During his stay there, the Park City collection collec-tion was sold. This I found out at a later date. Since that time, I have been in constant communication with him, trying to find out who made this purchase. Through other information I have gathered, the late Harvey Thompson made the purchase, but immediately sold them to another party. SO AS OF THIS DATE, the mystery remains, what person per-son or persons made this last purchase? Was it a native of Park City? Or possibly a visitor visit-or from Salt Lake, maybe even some one from out of State. To a collector such as myself my-self this missing collection is most important. Such as many people retain maybe one specimen, speci-men, they have no specific use for such, and a wealth of information in-formation to a collector is lost for every token that can't be located. Over the many years of Park City's existance, hundreds of merchants have operated a business. When one obtains a particular merchant that issued this medium of exchange, then a collector can pursue the historical his-torical back-ground of a merchant. mer-chant. As many points of interest inter-est do tie into facts and finally it leads to some conclusive data. Through this article I would hope that some one might be able to know some information of this missing Park City collection. ONE MAY WONDER what the odds would be to obtain any information in-formation on this collection. But a collector must be most persistant per-sistant and make every effort if he does wish to increase ones collection and its historical data, I would appreciate any information in-formation by the readers relative rel-ative to my request. Also to any one that might have for sale Park City tokens; or any history his-tory they might volunteer to me. -Joe J. Davich, 360 South 11th East", Salt Lake City , Utah 84102. |