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Diameter: 34.24mm & Weight: 8.09 gr.
Provenance
Oaks House – Room 2 Hotel Key FOB (c. 1890–1915)
Stamped metal key fob from a hotel named Oaks House. The tag is flat and round with a strap slot at the top and reads “OAKS – 2 – HOUSE.” on the face, with decorative scrolls flanking the room number. Pieces like this were used at the front desk to keep track of room keys in late-19th and early-20th-century hotels.
No Oaks House is documented in Montana directories or newspapers from this period. A notable contemporary Oaks House hotel operated in the coal town of Sims, North Dakota (advertised as the largest hotel west of Fargo), so this tag may have originated there and was later lost at this site by a traveling worker or guest.
The Sims Oaks House was built for the Northern Pacific Coal Company and described in period accounts as “the largest hotel west of Fargo” used to house company officers.
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