Token - L. Gnaedinger, Son and Company Montreal

Token - L. Gnaedinger, Son and Company (Montreal) - obverseToken - L. Gnaedinger, Son and Company (Montreal) - reverse

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Features

Location Canada
Type Promotional items › Advertising token
Composition Copper
Diameter 27 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
100879
References Breton His# 574
Pierre Napoléon Breton; 1894. Histoire illustrée des monnaies et jetons du Canada. P.N. Breton & Co., Montreal, Canada.

Obverse

4-story building from corner with pedestrians
legend surrounding between 2 circles of dots

Script: Latin

Lettering:
L. GNAEDINGER, SON & Co.
* MONTREAL *

Reverse

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ESTABLISHED
FURS
HATS
* CAPS *
1852

Edge

Smooth

Comments

Story of Ludwig Karl Gnädinger in Montreal, Canada
http://www.gnaedinger-ramsen.ch/ahnenforschung/wahlwies/wahlwies_sprachen/genealogy_montreal_story_ludwig.htm
In the employment of Greene & Sons, there was another German named Emanuel Haeusgen, who was their bookkeeper, so he and Ludwig started in the fur business on the year 1852 under the name of Haeusgen & Gnaedinger, at No. 39 St. Peter Street and later a retail store on Notre Dame Street.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND  10 000 Produced in Germany around 1887

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