Klinkner Main 403

21mm, brass

About this token:

• Alissa writes: It just so happens that I am the great-great grandaughter of Charles Alexander Klinkner, whom has a lot of history in the Emeryville area. Here is a website that might help you figure out some history behind this Klinkner token.
  http://stat.cmu.edu/~klinkner/Personal/BayArea/CharlesKlinkner/
  Later, tokens started saying Moise-Klinkner as two businesses merged. There is a whole display on my great-great-great grandfather in the Oakland Library.
• Derek writes: Hello, I am Alissa's brother. C.A.Klinkner was my grandfather's grandfather. Recently, I have also seen some canteen tokens from the the 8th Calvary/Spanish American War that were made by Moise-Klinkner company selling on ebay. C.A. Klinkner was into just about everything. I wish the company would have stayed in the family, but shortly after the S.F. earthquake, Moise sold to a guy by the last name of Patrick. Patrick and Co. still exists today...as I recall, it looks like a stationary store in downtown S.F. now. If you order California license tags for your pets, they are made by Patrick and Co. these days. The company lives on, albeit with a different owner and under a different name.
• This is a stock telephone token of the Moise-Klinkner die sinker of San Francisco. Used by them to promote themselves. Listed in Kappen "California tokens" as San Francisco #1357. There are lots of different varieties and mules of this token.
• Cliff sent a scan of a differnent "Moise Klinkner" token with two addresses on Market St. It advertises Klinkner as a maker of "Telephone tokens, Red Rubber Seals, Stamps, Checks."

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