1900 RANDSBURG CALIFORNIA (MOJAVE DESERT) RARE SP ERROR VAR PALACE SALOON TOKEN
Item History & Price
You are bidding on a EXTREMELY RARE MOJAVE DESERT MINING TOWN, AND RARE TO FIND THIS BEAUTIFUL....UNUSUAL "ERROR VARIETY" MERCHANT VARIETY (town name) AND USED IN A HISTORIC SALOON, & TOUGH DESERT REGION TO FIND EARLY TOKENS FROM old spinner style token which actually says on reverse "GOOD FOR 12 1/2C IN TRADE" and used at a business which was called "PALACE (THE PALACE SALOON, BAR, ETC)" which was used in the historic desert mining town of "RANSBURG" ak...a RANDSBURG, CALIFORNIATHIS IS RARE DESERT MINING TOWN.....AND REALLY A TOUGH PLACE TO FIND BEAUTIFUL "UN-DUG" TOKEN SPECIMENS FROM....THIS TOKEN IS JUST GORGEOUS, CAME OUT OF THE TOWN OF RANDSBURG FOUND BACK IN THE 1970'S....THE "PALACE SALOON" WAS RUN BY PROPRIETOR GEORGE T PHILLIPS WHO CAME TO RANDSBURG IN 1897..EVENTUALLY HE PARTNERED WITH "THOMAS L ROYAL" WHO WAS GRANTED A LIQUOR LICENSE, AND THIS WAS THE START OF THE PALACE SALOON.....WHICH WAS LOCATED ON LOTS 16 & 17 OF BLOCK 1 ON BUTTE AVENUE, AND SERVED AS A SALOON UNTIL PROHIBITION WHEN IT BECAME A "BILLIARDS & SOFT DRINK PARLOR" (thanks to my dear friend J. Bart for his amazing Rand District research papers)WHAT I LOVE, IS THAT THIS TOKEN HAS A DIE ERROR, WITH TOWN NAME "RANSBURG" INSTEAD OF "RANDSBURG"....WHICH ADDS ANOTHER LEVEL OF COLLECTIBILITY TO THIS EARLY TOKEN.........This is just a flat out tough token to find from this mining camp....if you have ever been to this town, you would "get it".....tough to find anything from this town, and this token was actually found in town of Randsburg many years agoThe historic town of Randsburg is the center of the "Rand Mining District" located in Kern County, near sister mining camps known as Atolia, Johannesburg, Osdick, Red Mountain and not far from Trona and ghost town of Garlock Cal......Trade token is aluminum metal, scalloped, about 29mm in diameter , and it displays very nicely. (please see pictures in gallery) Rare to find tokens this beautiful from Randsburg (except for the monarch saloon token which most collectors know is a very common "hoard" token...with many many known)Gallery pictures should give you all the information you need. Terrific and SCARCE MOJAVE DESERT MINING CAMP SALOON BAR USED, SUPER RARE TOWN AND MERCHANT, , old trade token once used at the "PALACE (THE PALACE SALOON, ROYAL & PHILLIPS, PROP)" trade token , once used in the historic desert mining camp living ghost town of "RANSBURG" aka RANDSBURG, CALIFORNIA.Thanks so much for looking....collect and invest in history!!!!! Tangible assets are always the best ones.
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