Cartaux - engraver

[redwine]

Rol Special FC
Consimilar

[redwine]

And three more FCs, for your amusement only 

[redwine]

PS I think that Malcolm's "French shopping trolley" might be a 1907 Voisin biplane or something similar. 

[Figleaf]

Maybe so, but the shading is confusing, to say the least. Hergé did a better job.

Peter

[malj1]

I think you may be right, at least it has the correct number of wheels!

I am curious too about the Jeton Prime in reply 46



I have seen many types and sizes of these, as I particularly notice them having seen them attributed to US Military which seems most unlikely.

[malj1]

Here is another Cartaux piece, with 10 and a large V on both sides, but curiously, also on both sides, the small Cartaux Depose is reversed. Brass, 19.1mm.

[Figleaf]

DÉPOSÉ is mirrored vertically, but CARTAUX is mirrored horizontally. This makes no sense.

Peter

[redwine]

SNAP!  ish 

Coin aligned, same size, 2.92g, but with 'D' and '3' countermark on both sides. Made of something silvery, cupro-nickel?

[malj1]

The border pattern appears the same but it is incuse on my piece.

[redwine]

Incuse on this one too
That'll be me and my scanner, we're not getting on well..............

[Figleaf]

I think the central letter on redwine's piece is an vertically inverted a. If so, the v on the brass piece could have been vertically inverted too. These pieces are really weird. I would have accepted a production error, but the same production error on two related pieces?

Peter

[malj1]

The fact that the figures 10 are the same on both it seems reasonable to suggest 'V' and 'D' are the correct way up?

We need elucidation of the letters here.

[redwine]

Bang goes my roman numeral theory I've just found an 'E' on ebay 

[redwine]

Bussoz Bussophone 
23mm
4.94g
Medal aligned

[malj1]

A token apparently  for the Bussophone, the very first Jukebox machine.

The Bussophone was copyrighted in 1923 by Bussoz of Paris, France. Less than 10 units are known to exist.