A Solid Brass American Corpse Identification Tag from the ‘Bureau of Indian Affairs; Montana Territory; no.91’ c.1930 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews coupled with the fact that

coupled with the fact that it is very rare to have Maple and Co Ltd London engraved to any dial of any form whatsoever

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The upholstery is fresh to the back

Some of the glass may be later replacements

In the 1930s a company called ‘Hovmantory Glasbruk’ made commemorative reproductions of these flasks with accompanying glasses but the quality of the decoration is far more clumsy on later mass produced examples

A Solid Brass American Corpse Identification Tag from the ‘Bureau of Indian Affairs; Montana Territory; no.91’ c.1930 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews coupled with the fact thatOrigin: American Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1930 Length: 4 The solid brass morgue tags once attached to the toes of the deceased and surviving from the early twentieth century stating to be from the Bureau of Indian Affairs marked "Property of U. S. Government Bureau of Indian Affairs Wyoming Territory Corpse No. 91". The tag shows good overall condition. There are reproductions of these tags online of Wyoming Territory and