1915 Hollywood Movie Advertising Token - Charlie Chaplin ' S " A Jitney Elopement "




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PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS - THIS IS JUST ONE OF 10HOLLYWOOD/SOCAL AND OTHER TOKENS BEING LISTED, AND MORE WILL BE LISTED AFTERTHESE SALES Obverse: CHARLIE CHAPLIN / (a pair of tattered "Chaplin shoes") / JITNEYReverse: (Bust of Chaplain facing forward) / 1915 White metal. About 21mm in diameter. Catalog number: Kappen 2K-186 Charles Kappen's original 1976 catalog "California Tokens" lists a token of similar metal and size, but dated 1917, as Hollywood K-24. This... may be an error in cataloging.  Kappen's 1997 "California Tokens Supplement" lists this token as Hollywood 2K-186 and adds a note stating that three specimens had been reported to the cataloger. For the Chaplin buff, this is a great piece of film history from the silent film era. From various sites on the Internet: In late 1914 Essanay Films succeeded in hiring Charlie Chaplin away from Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, offering Chaplin a higher salary of $1, 250 a week with a signing bonus of $10, 000,  and his own production unit. Chaplin made 14 short comedies for Essanay in 1915, at both the Chicago and Niles, California studios. "A Jitney Elopement" was a 33 minute silent film produced by the Niles studio. It was Charlie Chaplin's fifth film for Essanay Films, and it starred Chaplin and his leading lady,  Edna Purviance ,  as lovers. Edna's father greedily wants her to marry wealthy Count Chloride de Lime whom neither she nor he has ever met. Unknown to Edna's father, his daughter already has a true love: Charlie. Edna drops a note to her Charlie explaining her plight and asking him be her knight and save her. Charlie agrees. He arrives at Edna's home and impersonates the Count at dinner. Charlie humorously consumes beans with a knife, but still manages to keep up the facade of being a count. However, the true Count de Lime arrives and Charlie is roughly escorted away as an impostor. The count takes Edna to a nearby park to woo her, but Charlie is close by, as is Edna's father. Charlie interrupts the Count's romantic plans and begins a fight with the Count, Edna's father and three park policemen An automobile chase featuring Edna and Charlie in one car and all his pursuers in another ends with a few timely and accurate brick tosses by Charlie and the pursuing vehicle being bumped off a pier. Culminating with the first filmed car chase sequence in the history of San Francisco, beginning on the speedway in front of the iconic windmill, and eventually ending up on the Great Highway, the movie ends with Edna and Charlie shyly kissing in their vehicle. The jitney in the film was a type of share taxi popular in the US between 1914 and 1916. Most of the film was made in San Francisco and includes scenes of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and the large windmills still on the park's west side.
 My father, who is a retired coin dealer, has for years beensending me old tokens and medals from Hollywood and the Los Angeles area as heran across them. He figured that they would be of more interest to people in myarea than in Oregon where he currently resides. It is now time for me to partwith some of these interesting and historic items. Some of them picture moviestars of bygone days. Others are vintage "movie money" used by theproduction companies to represent coins in their movies, and still others areadvertising or employee tokens used at Paramount and other famous studios. Afew of the tokens are from businesses that operated in the Los Angeles areafrom the early 1900s to the 1960s. He also has a passion for other interestingU.S. and world tokens and medals issued before 1900 so some of my listings mayinclude a few of those items. I'll be starting my auctions at the price my father paid for themyears ago, and let the market take them where it will. All items are guaranteed genuine, unless otherwise stated. Youwill receive the exact item(s) pictured on my auction. Actual color of theitem(s) being auctioned is often a little different from the color on mypictures. Some items just don't photograph as well as others. Since I amnot a coin dealer, I will not attempt to grade the item(s). I've tried to makethe pictures as clear as possible so you may use them to determine the gradefor yourself. Obvious damage will be noted, but minor marks and wear due to agewill not. Please contact me with your questions before bidding. I do combine shipping for auctions won within a three day period. Pleasecontact me if you intend to bid on auctions closing on different days. Itemswon will usually be mailed housed in my father's original package unless thepackage has been damaged. I would love to see these items go to a new homewhere there is the same appreciation for their historic significance as myfather and I have had for them. Mailing via first class USPS envelope inside a firm cardstocksleeve. Undercurrent Post Office slowdowns, other mailing options are available and otherscan be requested.



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