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Show Park City Trade Tokens Came in All Shapes, Sizes. Markings filigree, meant it was an early issue as this was indeed a recognized art at the turn of our century. Token shapes would be a very good example, as many tokens struck in an unusual shape were very common only up to about 1920. I HAVE TRIED to find the full history pertaining to the manufacturing manu-facturing of tokens. But here again information has been limited. Many firms have been out of business for a long time, the ones that have remained over the years, their invoices, records, and even the original "dies" have been destroyed. In the past several months I have been fortunate to obtain Park City tokens and material from the following present and past residents of Park City. My words of appreciation to Ray Wortley, Robert Hernon, Joe Pezely, Ken Webb, Fred Fuelling, Fuell-ing, Bea K u m m e r, Wilson Lenzi, and Eva Naglich. WISH TO EXPRESS my words of appreciation to them and others who have in some way or another made a generous offering to the growth of my "Token" collection and history. The further I pursue this great task of tokens and history, his-tory, it leads me to believe that I have only touched the surface in respect to tokens and vital history of the Park City merchants. If anyone might have Park City tokens they would part with or sell, or history, I would appreciate receiving this in-formation.-Joe J. Davich, 360 South 11th East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84102. By Joe J. Davich IT WAS VERY COMMON in the early days; that the token manufacturer covered only a select region with their merchandise. mer-chandise. Possibly two or three states would be the boundary for the salesman. But then again, many salesmen covered quite an area, possibly due to the commissions received and also the desire to travel a lot. The manufacturer had at least fifteen various types of metals that a merchant could select from when ordering his tokens. Aluminum and brass seemed to be the most popular metals due to the reasonable costs of the metal. If one desired bronze, or German silver the cost would be approximate 25 greater than of a basic metal. As for the exact shape that the merchant would want his tokens in; here again the manufacturer man-ufacturer had many to choose from. For example, round, oct-agaon, oct-agaon, scalloped, square, bell, and many others. So it seems the most popular type used in Park City, was round. Although a few merchants selected the octagon and square shape. IF ONE MIGHT compare the Park City token to the ones used in the coal mining areas of Price, Sunnyside, Hiawatha, Mohrland, and others, seemed their desires leaned towards the circular, octagon, square, shield, clover-leaf and scalloped. scallop-ed. The merchants of Bingham and the Copperfield selected the round type in brass. After a merchant selected the metal and shape for his tokens; he would place the name of his firm and the lettering of Park City Utah on the obverse (this being the front of the token.) But some merchants would desire de-sire the full business address on the obverse. On the reverse (thisbeingthe back side) he would select a specific denomination to appear. ap-pear. If special wording was required on the obverse and reverse there would be an ad- ditional charge, as the manufacturer man-ufacturer had a "stock die" used on all tokens such as Merchandise, In Trade, Shave, Drink, etc. For example, Good for 5? in Trade, or good for $1.00 in Merchandise. IN THE PARK CITY token series, I have found that some merchants instead of having the full name of the business or their own name on the obverse ob-verse of the token, they selected select-ed just their initials to appear. The reason for this particular selection isn't known at this time. The following are but a few that appear with initials, and believe be-lieve them to be from Park City. B & L . . . W. A C.H.C. . . . C.H. . . . Z. ... M & M . . . MC & MC or the Manhattan Bar. Such tokens as described above are classified to the collector as a 'Maverick which is a unidentifiable token. The search for information concerning con-cerning the unclassified token drives the collector on to countless count-less hours of research, writing of letters, and searching over old directories in order to attribute at-tribute one more token. But the reward received upon this completion com-pletion is very rich in personal per-sonal satisfaction. OF THE ABOVE Mavericks, I have attributed CARLSON-HENDERSON-CROOKS . . . CHRBTENSEN & HAMILTON . . . and believe that W. A. might be Willis Adams, and very possible that Z would stand for Brandi Zurlo. The others listed and many more that I have in the collection collec-tion still need to be verified. Would hope that some of the readers and "old-timers" might be able to' help me on this worthy cause. Have taken the liberty of having hav-ing four different tokens photographed photo-graphed for the readers of this series. As stated before many have never seen a token or have any idea of its appearance'. The one token speaks for itself, as its a definite Park City pattern. The other three would be classified as the Mavericks", Mav-ericks", and require the date of business, closing date, and who the owner or owners might have been. MANY TOKENS can be found with the manufacturer's name or abbreviation stamped on the obverse side. A small discount would be accorded to the mer-chant, mer-chant, as the manufacturer would publicize himself on his order of tokens. As a general rule, dating of tokens is hard to pinpoint, however how-ever many specimens by their very configuration can be closely pinpointed. As an example, ex-ample, lets take the filigree token. Uusually the fancier the |