Non-Contemporary Civil War token Fuld NC-OH-F formerly listed as Fuld OH895aA-2b R7 NGC MS65. Fisler & Chance 1 Glass Soda Water Polar. Perfumeries, Notions And Fancy Articles with mortar and pestle on reverse

From the Tampa Collection……Previously, A

splendid rarity from the George J. Fuld Collection. A

 find for the Ohio specialist.

Notes: Dr. Israel Fisler and Dr. Samuel Chance

 operated the partnership at 15 North Main Street.

 Fisler was a quartermaster in the 52nd Ohio

 Infantry, companies F and S, from May 29, 1862,

until he resigned on November 20, 1862. Afterward

he was a partner with Dr. John H. Ayers (or Ayres)

in Urbana. Later, Chance bought out Ayers’ interest

to form Fisler & Chance with Dr. Israel Fisler. Per

 information from John Ostendorf, the business

 opened in 1866.

As to whether these tokens were ordered during

the Civil War is not known. In any event, Stanton

added a few new customers for CWT in 1866,

as the shop was still making tokens from old dies.

Such tokens were very much in circulation, and

 shopkeepers could buy $10 worth for $7, earning

a $3 profit for each group paid out—in a day when

 labor was valued at $1.50 to $2 per day. The

 serendipitous acquisition of one of these tokens

at a flea market in Hartfield, NY, on Lake

Chautauqua, formed the subject of an article, “A

‘Chance” Find,” by William Groom, in JCWTS,

Spring 1985, pp. 4-6.

Tokens TN-430-A and this one are somewhat

similar in style, with triangular arrangement of

central words.