Token - Saulsbury Bros. (Ridgely, Maryland) ND

Reverse

Denticles at rim. 2 at center backed by bursting rays.

Script: Latin

Lettering: 2

Edge

Plain

Comment

Used as a counter token by Saulsbury Bros. Inc.  A vegetable growing and packing company.  They started in as early as 1888, with a store front selling vegetables and dry goods open only during season.  First were called A,G, Saulsbury & Bros., incorporating later.  Selling the store in 1911 the went into the cannery business which evolved into a vegetable freezing operation.  They sold the frozen Vegetable plant in 2001 to Hanover Foods which continued operations at the plant. These tokens in denominations of 2, 2 ½ and 5 in aluminium and brass, also in round and square shapes.