Tobacco Tags Instead Of Nuggets

[brogansown]

I'm betting that most of you detectorists have found a large number tobacco tags, just as I have.  Up here the most prevalent tags are "stars", but from time to time others pop up as well.  As a Museum manager I get almost as excited with a tag as a nugget.  So, I started a collection of this chewing tobacco advertisement.  Most 19th century miners smoked either a pipe, a cigar or chewed.  I liked to hear from you guysabout your tag finds, if you care to.  I've attached some examples and an ad from the 1890's.  Oh, and a little poem from the era:

When weary I are,

I smokes my cigar.

And as the smoke rises,

Up into my eyes,

I thinks of my true love

And Oh, How I sighes!

[brogansown]

Somehow the "And Oh How I sighes! got covered up by the photos.

[Gerry in Idaho]

Good to see you on here Gary.  I too have dug a few in yrs past and I know a couple of them have been put away.  Here are 2 that I keep displayed in the showroom.

You have a very nice collection of them.

[WesD]

Those are neat! I remember finding the dog tag, but not knowing what it was I tossed it.  Guess the key to identifying these is the small triangular spikes.

[brogansown]

Thanks guys.  Gerry, I also have a Fanny Edel tag-you and I probably found them in the same area here in Malheur County.  They were named for the Myers Bros's partner Jacob Edel's daughter Fanny.  On the detecting front, Mike, my brother Jim and I got out last week before the snow and got a few tiny pieces.

On an older matter, I'm trying to restore the 1870's or so, beer mug you gave when you visited.  I'm going to create a permanent display in the Stone House Museum.  So some of this "junk" we find can go to good use.  Thanks

[MSC]

Found a few old metal cigar containers in my travels but nothing tike those, wow, good going!