‘’As so much has been said in the papers, from time to time, about Pfaff’s it may be well to state that the name is descriptive, simply, of a restaurant and lager bier saloon, kept at No. 647 Broadway, by a Teuton of that name, and which, partly from its central position, and partly from the excellence of its fare, has been such a favorite resort, for several years, for artists, litterateurs, actors, managers, editors, critics, politicians, and other public characters, as to have become quite famous. It is not, as has been often reported, the rendezvous of a particular clique or club of Bohemians (whatever they maybe), but simply a general and convenient meeting-place for cultivated men, and one where, almost any evening, you may meet representatives of nearly every branch of literature and art, assembled, not by appointment, nor from habit even, but I met by chance, the usual way. Among the literary men whom we have met, there from time to time, during the last three or four years, may be mentioned Walt Whitman, Aldrich, Winter, Stoddard, Bayard Taylor, W. Ross Wallace..."

Someone is going to have to publish in one of the Civil War token magazines the story behind the PFAFF'S TAVERN tokens: Pfaff's, on upper Broadway in New York, during the Civil War and in later decades, was the biggest gay bar in NY and a literary center because Walt Whitman and his crowd hung out there. It is the only token known to be associated with a gay bar. Its jolly monk device alludes to the meaning of the name Pfaff.