I have always collected Fraternal Order Club chips.
I got 40 over 8 chips in 3 different molds in 1999, Dots, Lazy Diamond, and Skey.
Haven't seen others since then.
Jay Pike found this one and sent it to me. IMO the 1039 would be the Post number.
No Mason card found as of 9/6/15 but they came out of a club in WY in the last few years.
History:
"40/8" - WW 1 military veteran's club similar to VFW.
The titles and symbols of the Forty & Eight reflect its First World War origins. Americans were transported to the battle front on French trains within boxcars stenciled with a “40/8”, denoting its capacity to hold either forty men or eight horses. This uncomfortable mode of transportation was familiar to all who fought in the trenches; a common small misery among American soldiers who thereafter found “40/8” a lighthearted symbol of the deeper service, sacrifice and unspoken horrors of war that bind all who have borne the battle.
Very few soldiers that boarded those "40/8" trains are left to tell the story.
I salute all that did.
Gene Trimble US army 1959-61
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