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The Fare Box ,,,,,,,A _THEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII111111111111111111111111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ...forFARE..., IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiuJim BOX IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIluIIIlu1IIIII#I Monthly News-Letter Trazoparttti'an Taken Ca1_1octaro A111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 IIIIIIIIII111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 NEW ISSUES EDITOR EDITOR 17ihPJI Ir1iKI13U .l t1 1. IL COPPER, 14i 632 Ashbury street P. 0. Pox 1204 San Francisco, California Poston, Nfassachusetts 94117 02104 New Issues Service Parking Tokens JOHN U. NICOLO$1 DU7INU H. UUI~SEt 3002 Salindo Street P. O. -pox 11661 Oakland, (California Palo (Alto, Oalifornia 94601 94306 Volume 22, Number 1 JANUARY, 1968 Our 247th Issue WILLARD J . PRICE Willard J . Price, A . V .A. #637, died October 11 at age 75 . Mr. Price was one of our Cana- dian members, from Montreal . He was an active and dedicated collector, and his friends, of whom there were many, will miss him in the years to come . This is the last issue of The Fare Box you will receive unless your 1968 A . V. A. dues of $4.00 have been paid by March 1 . If you haven't sent it in yet, please do so right away . We want you with us in 1968, and we believe that $4 is a bargain price to pay . Send it to R . K. Frisbee - P .O. Box 19082, Westwood Station - Denver, Colorado 80219 . We are grateful to the membership for showing their customary generosity by respond- ing to our suggestion, last issue, that they might include a little extra to help us pay the in- creased postage cost of mailing The Fare Box this year . To date we have received nearly $50 in donations. Every little bit helps I The new edition of Atwood's Catalogue Is in preparation, but no formal announcement will be made until we can estimate approximately when they will be ready . It has been slow going. What takes so much time is the photographing, as we want to include pictures of near- ly every token listed, including the common ones if time permits . Speakingof photographs, J . Douglas Ferguson of Rock Island, Quebec, has very gener- ously provided us with flawless photographs of all his rare Canadian transportation tokens, taken by Fred Bowman . These will be included in the new Atwood Catalogue, and they will be worth the price of the book by themselves . When I opened the package, just looking at the pho- tographs was a delight. Each picture is a gem I Alan Weighell reports that he sent out over 100 copies of the fine historical booklet on Toronto transit history to A . V.A . members who requested them . For a while his supply was exhausted, but the Toronto Transit Commission have generously provided enough additional copies to supply all requests . If you would like a copy of this beautiful 64-page illustrated booklet, send 25' in coin for postage to Mr . Weighell at 86 Ledbury Road - Toronto 12, Ont. This issue goes to press at 2 :17 A .M ., February 11 . We're running out of copy, so see if you can send us a good article for publication . We also like your ads. al-661M jggx -Gk free download from: www.vecturist.com -Page 2- -January 1968- = APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP = 1001 JOHN B . RAKOSKE - 421 DUGLIN AVENUE - SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK 12303 Age 67 ; retired . Collects U .S ., Canada, Foreign . (HLnde) 1002 LAWRENCE RALPH WOLFE - 1031 EDGERTON - ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA 55101 Age 30 ; Mechanic . Collects U .S ., Canada, Foreign . (La6tLn) 1003J LOUIS H . CRAWFORD, JR . - BOX E, 106 SEA PINE - LONG BEACH, MISSISSIPPI 39560 Age 10 ; Student . Collects U .S . & Parking . (Cncuubohd) 1004 JOHN L . MURRAY - BOX 5567 - TITUSVILLE, FLORIDA 32780 Age 29 ; Oscilligram Processor . Collects all types . (Nick Mutchay) 1005 FLOYD 0 . HARTLEY - 411 NORTH WALNUT STREET - FENTON, MICHIGAN 48430 Age 41 ; Machinist . Collects U .S . & Parking . (Mahquand) 1006 HAROLD E . MAYLAND - 152 PARKVIEW DRIVE - UNION, NEW JERSEY 07083 Age 55 ; Real Estate Broker . Collects U .S . & Canada . (Cobbee) 1007 EDWARD ROEHRS - R.F .D. #852 - ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO 00612 Age 48 ; Farmer . Collects foreign . (Canman) RESIGNATIONS FROM MEMBERSHIP 424 William Hanousek - 2542 42nd Street - Astoria, New York 11103 787 Angelo A. Rosato - 44 Bank Street - New Milford, Connecticut 06776 CHANGE OF ADDRESS (* indicates contribution to help pay for new address. plate) Capt . Robert Clifton - Box 7850 7th AF - APO, San Francisco, CA 96307 Charles 0 . Evanson - 172 Schiller St . - Elmhurst, Ill . 60126 [corrected Zip] • 'Evelyn Jackson - P .O .. Box 1834 - Ashland, Kentucky 41101 • Warren L . Johnson - 5 Spruce Avenue - Middletown, Rhode Island 02840 • Nick Murray, Jr . - Boic 672 - Mandeville, Louisiana 70448 • Charles W . Patterson - 2866-B Hammond Hts - Fort Campbell, Kentucky 42223 * Gerald B . Perkins,,Jr . - 5152 Mt . Abbot - El Paso, Texas 79904 * Rev . Edward Shemelia - R .R . #7 - Box 4.77-A-- .Muncie,_ Indiana 47302 • Charles H . Toomey - 206 Center,, Avenue - Lake Bluff, Illinois 60044 = THIRTY-FIVE M .A. MEMBERS SPONSOR 78 NEW APPLICANTS IN 1967 = By aoseph Hark Kotler Both applications for membership and the number of sponsors were down sharply last year . For the first time in four years we • took in fewer than 100 members . However, for the first . time in many years the Secretary led in number sponsored . A tabulation follows : Mazeau 16, Coffee 11, Carnazn 5, Hinde 5, Kotler 4, Rider 4, H .D. Allen 3, Mish- ler 3, Freeman 2 ; ONE EACH : Shieber, McKelvey, Vacketta, Mary Allen, Robert .Misdom, Yowell, Nickell, Borcher, E.M. Rice, Lanham, Backora, Gladys Maxwell, Moyer, Bolz, Bartunek, Schmalgemeier, George Sanders, Paul, Schwartz, Al Williams, Masuda, Porter, Lee Sanders, Clara Migley ; ONE-HALF EACH: Dewey, Spindler . = PHILADELPHIA COLLECTORS HOLD DECEMBER MEETING = The Delaware Valley Vecturist Assn . held its December meeting on Saturday, Dec . 2 . As usual the meeting was very informal and consisted of some very interesting conversations on our favorite tokens . In addition to regulars Biery, DiMichael, Hi- orth, Jordan, Paul, and Zaika, we were pleased to see AVA members James, Pernicano, and Winant, who had not attended before, and Fred Lange who is well known to coal mine scrip collectors as Cole S . Cuttle . The next meeting is scheduled for 1 :30 pm, Sunday, February 11 at our regular meeting place, Liberty Federal Savings & Loan, 202 N . Broad St ., Philadelphia . Note that only the rear door is open at the time of our meetings . There is a parking lot in the ear (no tokens) . free download from: www.vecturist.com -January 1968- -Page 3- THE DATING OF OLD TOKENS = By Donald Punshon One of the hardest things to do in collecting or cataloguing old tokens is de- termining when they were issued and used . It's easy to say that a company was org- anized in 1890 and continued in operation until 1945, and that they used tokens . The real trouble starts when you try to discover what year the tokens were issued and how long they were in use . Even the presence of a date on a token doesn't always indi- cate the date of issue but may be the founding date of the company or a commemorative date of some long forgotten event . Some of the easiest to date are tokens issued by those horsecar and early street car companies that were ambitious but short-lived . If the tokens also carry adver- tisements of some local company or merchant on the reverse it's even easier and in many cases can give a very high degree of accuracy in pin-pointing the date of issue and use . Lincoln, Nebraska, has some tokens that can be dated relatively close and with a high degree of accuracy due to a happy combination of these factors . Checking the directories of Lincoln in the Nebraska State Historical society one can come up with the following information on tokens listed in Atwood's Catalogue . Neb 540 G, Capital City Railway, with W .R. Dennis, Hatten & Finisher . Capital City Railway was organized in 1883 and lasted until 1886 . tdilbour R . Dennis, Hat- ter and Gents' Furnisher, and Dealer in Furs, is listed from 1.885 to 1895 . Using the two dates one can say that Neb 540 G was issued and used in the period 1885-86 . Another good example can be found in Neb 540 J, K, and AA . C .H . St . Ry. Co . is listed with Harris & Harris Real ,Estate, and S .P . Stevens & Co . Retail Grocers . Again the directories give an interesting set of dates and information . Capitol Heights Street Railway Co . operated from 1888 to 1890 . Harris & Harris Real Estate from 1886 to 1889 . S .P. Stevens & Co . Retail Grocers from 1889 to 1891 . With the above information one can say that Neb 540 K was used in the period 1888-90, Neb 540 J in the period 1888-89, and Neb 540 AA in the period 1889-90 . The three can possibly be-pin-pointed even closer if one studies the above and attempts to theorize on the probable sequence of issue . The chances are that Neb 540 K, with no advertisement on it, was issued in 1888 with the start of the company . Harris & Harris seeing in the tokens an ideal way to advertise their business worked out a deal with the street railway company and the new token, Nab E40 J came out in 1889 . No doubt the street railway company found the carrying of advertising advantageous, but with the demise of the real estate company it left them in the embarrassing pos- ition of advertising a defunct company on their tokens, so they were forced to find a new partner to share the cost of new tokens . A new partner was found in S .P . Ste- vens & Co . Retail Grocers, and so in 1890 their last token, Neb 540 AA, came out . While checking the above one finds a note of interest on Neb 540 F, Herdie Coach Ticket .
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