Hotel Occidental Owney tag
National Postal Museum

Hotel Occidental Owney tag

Hotel Occidental · 1888-1897

metal (brass)
National Postal Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
National Postal Museum

The locations of some of the tokens Owney received on his journeys are impossible to track down. This flowery metal token offers few clues to its origin. “Occidental” was a popular name for hotels in the late nineteenth century--no other information on this token provides a clue as to where Owney received this strikingly-shaped hotel key token.

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