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Welcome Message from Fred

Jack started collecting tokens before he could count his toes. I met him in 1976 when I was enthralled by embossed local drugstore bottles. The concept that these could come from remote Nevada ghost towns was one I couldn’t get away from. Then the fact that as a mining geologist, I got to go all over Nevada to many of these sites … and get paid for it! Wow! Then Jack says “Wait a minute! There’s tokens that go with these places!” I was hooked. Oh yeah – that was fifty years ago.

Jack worked for the First National Bank of Nevada, and he too got to get out and about a bit, as he got involved with bank real estate deals. A jovial character, he found and met many collectors across Nevada, and introduced me to many. I wasn’t after tokens at first, but what really got me going later was after a number of years in the mining exploration business, I had been to so many of these crazy, nutty little mining camps that I just had to collect stuff rom them. Paper, tokens, bottles … it didn’t matter. Bring it on!

We put together the first Nevada token and bottle book in 1977. It was a softbound book with yellow cover. Jack had a great idea of putting a copy of a blank Virginia and Truckee Railroad stock certificate on the back, and we would fill in the collector’s name that bought the book. I loved the idea. Back then, the only reference work that even remotely covered the fact that Nevada Ghost Town tokens existed, was a book by Adele Reed in 1974, “We...