6/18/26 Report - Mysteries Solved. Old Tokens. Embossed Milk Glass Jar. Tropical Weather Map.

 

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Mystery Item Found Years Ago in South Florida.

I decided to look through a bag of a hundred or so old token finds.  Included was the one shown above, which I found probably forty years ago.  I was never able to get much information on it, but these days it is a lot easier to get information on the internet, so I tried again.  And bingo!  I found pictures of the item, which I was never able to find in the past, along with a lot of information.  

I long guessed that it was a token for the Tivoli Gardens Amusement Park in Denmark, but I finally verified that and got new details. The park used tokens rather than currency.  This one was a 25 ore token.  

The Hemingsen 25 Øre Tivoli token was used as an amusement‑park ride or game token at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, issued by or for the Hemmingsen company. It functioned as park‑specific currency, allowing visitors to pay for rides, attractions, or amusements inside Tivoli rather than using Danish coinage.

Tivoli Gardens, founded in 1843 in Copenhagen, is one of the oldest amusement parks in the world, known for its enchanting atmosphere and cultural significance.

Like with many American tokens, they are no longer in use today, having been replaced by digital payments, tickets, and ride passes.

Here is another that I found a lot of years ago.  I always thought this one might a token too, but with the details were worn down and unreadable.

Another Mystery Object.

From my new research, it seems this one is probably a washer or something more utilitarian. AI suggests there was a triangular shank. I'm not so sure that one is right, but it very well could be, and I'm satisfied with that now. I wouldn't doubt if it was for a fishing reel or something like that.

Looking through the bag of tokens was a little trip through recent history.  As I recall, this one was probably associated with Nancy Reagan's war on drugs.

Here is what I found about that.

The "Just Say No" campaign emerged in response to growing concerns about drug use among American youth during the 1980s. The phrase was popularized after a poignant interaction between Nancy Reagan and a schoolgirl in Oakland, California, who asked how to respond if offered drugs. Reagan's reply, "just say no," became the slogan for the campaign, which was officially launched in 1985.

I found two of those in my old bag of finds.

There were several transportation tokens from New York, New Jersey, and a few of this one from Dade County. I included in mainly because of the nice graphics on the other side but it seems I lost that image.

Anyhow, I might show more of the token finds another time.  There were tons, including many common ones of no particular interest such as the many No Cash Value Chuck-E-Cheese, Race-O-Rama, and other game room or amusement tokens, but there are also some more interesting ones.

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Below are a few excerpts interspersed with a few of my own comments.  You might find the tips on dating bottles very useful for dating metal detecting sites where there might be a few old bottles.

I would guess this one is from the Art Deco period, which would put it in the 1910s, 20, or 30s.

The exact year when screw-top bottles were introduced by Watkins is unclear.  Perhaps it would have been sometime in the 1920s.  

However, some products were continued to be sold in “cork top” bottles for many years after other products had switched to screw top containers.   For instance, some of the flavorings and extracts are seen in bottles with a cork closure, but the paper labels on the bottles include a zip code in the company address information.   This would definitely date those bottles to 1963 or later, the year that zip codes were introduced in the United States.   

Some of the later bottles with paper labels and cork closures appear to be “special edition” or “commemorative” bottles that mimic the look of bottles they sold decades before.

There are probably hundreds of slightly different Watkins bottle mold variants in existence that have been used over the last 140 years...

Here is the source link where you can find more about the Watkins bottles and products.

J. R. Watkins Co, Winona, MN ~ vintage glass bottles ~ Information

I posted more about that jar, which is probably for Cold Cream, in the tgbottlebarn.blogspot.com site.

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The surf chart gets flatter and flatter. Good for shallow water metal detecting.

We are still having the afternoon negative low tide.

Not much change in beach conditions expected until a storm comes our way.

It is the time of year to start keeping an eye on the nhc.noaa.gov map.  Here's the latest.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net