Posted 9 years ago
SpiritBear
(813 items)
This is a 1912 - 1918 advertising token from my city.
It has a Native American in canoe reaching for his gun in the lake. "MUSKE-GONE" [Muskegon and musket gone? (Insurance against loss?)]
The back reads: W.W. Barcus / Real Estate / Insurance / Lyman Block / "Barkis is Willin" [Notice name-error?] / Muskegon, Mich.
Huh? What do you mean?
Would you believe that no one has figured that out in the local collector group, keramikos? We all thought it was simply a spelling error. I never even tried looking it up as a quote!