So-Called Dollar Discussions
L.H. Moise
Bill H.--This I consider a Moise Classic. Have you seen this Moise piece in sufficient detail to see what is going on? since most are worn or degraded for 1899 pieces. Rad glasses, an antique oyster delivery crate, a turn of the century oyster shucking knife and a shucked oyster in flight. Would have made a good so called when owned privately, or in a museum, or in the cliff house or Ripley's Believe it or not. But alas, token was created when T.P. Dunne owned it circa1890's 1910 making it an unqualified Saloon Token. This was the Japanese immigrant artisan in San Francisco with tuberculosis who created a perfect in every regard duplication of his body. Considered one of the world's works of art. Used over 5000 pieces carved wood, pulled out all his head hair, nose hair, ear hair, pubic hair, armpit and arm leg hair to put in perfect position on his statue matching every pore. Pulled out all his teeth and put them in his statue. Pulled out all his fingernails and toenails and placed them in perfect position. Seems ironic that it survived the 1906 Earthquake from a saloon located 4-6 blocks from the place where the Army took its stand with its dynamite to try to stop the fire- only to be heavily damaged in the 1987 California Earthquake. While J.C. Irvine Co S.F. did most of the Jap Statue pieces this is a signed piece and the only piece I've seen of Moise in CuproNickel. Same size and diameter as all the modified state seal pieces. ,