Tokens & Tool Tags. Pantheon Saloon, Honolulu. Brass Token (26mm, 6h). Struck by C.A. Klinker & Co., San Francisco. Struck circa 1893. PANTHEON SALOON/ GOOD FOR/ * ONE */ DRAUGHT/ BEER / ENTERPRISE BREWING CO./ -+-/ JIM DODD/ AGENT/ -+-/ HONOLULU. Medcalf & Russel 2TS-21; Token Catalog 4858. In PCGS encapsulation 50857923, graded VF 30.
From the Gerald F. Borrmann (Northern California Gentleman) Collection.
James Dodd was an Irish strongman known for juggling cannonballs when he first visited Honolulu with the circus in 1867. He would return a few years later and join the police force, becoming the city’s first white captain in 1875, an office he held only shortly before setting himself up as a hotelier in 1878. He would operate the Pantheon Saloon from then until his death in 1900. Dodd’s Pantheon Saloon tokens tokens were manufactured by C.A. Klinker & Co. in San Francisco, likely around 1893.
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