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Good luck token promoting Shuron Firmflex and Shock Absorber spectacle frames
COINS AND MEDALS
token
Shuron Optical Company Inc.; Grammes
North America: USA, New York, Geneva
1930s
bronze
overall: 33 mm

'Lucky glasses' token issued by an optical manufacturing company. Struck bronze, round, featuring on the obverse, a Swastika symbol, containing within its upper spaces a lucky horseshoe and four leaf clover and, within its lower spaces, a ladybug and a wishbone. On the reverse, an apparent geometrical linear pattern which when viewed at the correct orientation reads 'SHURON FIRMFLEX in tall thin letters and, at a 90 degree turn, 'SHOCK ABSORBER'.

2019.332

College Purchase, 2019