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    please need help identifying

    I found this a few years back .in a friends back yard in Terre haute Indiana.I think it has something to do with the railroad.not sure.can anyone help? thanks drew
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    Re: please need help identifying

    yes its a luggage tag for a railroad or stagecoach or even a steamboat , my guess would be the first a railroad tag.
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    Luggage tag? Perhaps the Indiana Railroad. (1930-1931)

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    Oops... Dan beat me to it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by drew73 link=topic=12937.msg137651#msg137651 date=1365302885
    I found this a few years back .in a friends back yard in Terre haute Indiana.I think it has something to do with the railroad.not sure.can anyone help? thanks drew
    Looks like a baggage id tag from the Erie& Illinois Railroad to me....

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    Re: please need help identifying

    the house was a brothel back in the day . so it mite be a rail road tag..
    best find's to date. 1859 seated quarter,1864 2 cent,1894 barber quarter.the oldest coin i got is a 50ad-bc50 widow's mite.Garrett pro pinpointer

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