Coin Collecting Tangents
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Coin Collecting Tangents
Yeah, I know... it's a coin collecting forum...
Well, over the years in my search for the next awesome coin, I've come across some oddball things that made me take a step back and just thought I'd share them with you:
If you remember, I found a picture frame in an antique store that had some 1893 World Exhibition tickets in it. I completed the decorative ticket set later on, but what you didn't know is that picture frame was sealed on the back with paper. To get the tickets out, I had to disassemble the frame. Inside, behind the matting paper, I found a souvenir card (paper front, cloth back... glued together with a clear "varnish") and the decoration was sewn onto the paper before gluing. I haven't been able to find anything on this.
Tickets: Souvenir card: If you move up to 1908, you could take a voyage on the USS Lusitania. You might recall, this ship was sunk by a German U-boat, resulting in the US entering World War I:
Oh, and as a bonus... there's a Franklin 1 cent stamp on that card! On to 1933, the 50th anniversary of the Ringling Bros. circus. To celebrate, they made their own money, that you had to buy to gain entrance to the various shows. This was a recent purchase that resulted from seeing some of them for the first time on the Facebook auction page:
Technically, this one is money. Back to the future, 1955, we have a book on how to survive a Nuclear Attack! Remember the videos of kids ducking under their school desks? Or, how about how to build your own underground shelter to wait out the blast:
I also have an illustrated newspaper from April 29, 1865 with a hand-draw image of John Wilkes-Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln, or a 1st edition of Scientific American (it was more like a newspaper then.)
Just curious what trinkets you have kept along the way of collecting coins?
Well, over the years in my search for the next awesome coin, I've come across some oddball things that made me take a step back and just thought I'd share them with you:
If you remember, I found a picture frame in an antique store that had some 1893 World Exhibition tickets in it. I completed the decorative ticket set later on, but what you didn't know is that picture frame was sealed on the back with paper. To get the tickets out, I had to disassemble the frame. Inside, behind the matting paper, I found a souvenir card (paper front, cloth back... glued together with a clear "varnish") and the decoration was sewn onto the paper before gluing. I haven't been able to find anything on this.
Tickets: Souvenir card: If you move up to 1908, you could take a voyage on the USS Lusitania. You might recall, this ship was sunk by a German U-boat, resulting in the US entering World War I:
Oh, and as a bonus... there's a Franklin 1 cent stamp on that card! On to 1933, the 50th anniversary of the Ringling Bros. circus. To celebrate, they made their own money, that you had to buy to gain entrance to the various shows. This was a recent purchase that resulted from seeing some of them for the first time on the Facebook auction page:
Technically, this one is money. Back to the future, 1955, we have a book on how to survive a Nuclear Attack! Remember the videos of kids ducking under their school desks? Or, how about how to build your own underground shelter to wait out the blast:
I also have an illustrated newspaper from April 29, 1865 with a hand-draw image of John Wilkes-Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln, or a 1st edition of Scientific American (it was more like a newspaper then.)
Just curious what trinkets you have kept along the way of collecting coins?
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Re: Coin Collecting Tangents
very M,
i used to have a 'cigar box' of trinkets,.....
"where" that went,...... :confused:
i used to have a 'cigar box' of trinkets,.....
"where" that went,...... :confused:
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Re: Coin Collecting Tangents
Also the Ringling Money was produced the same year as the controversial production of the 1933 Double Eagle ($20) St. Gaudens coins.
I'll have to see if I can locate my collection of Nails (metal).
Shipwreck, 1800's and ca. 1100ad from France
I'll have to see if I can locate my collection of Nails (metal).
Shipwreck, 1800's and ca. 1100ad from France
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Re: Coin Collecting Tangents
I'm glad you specified "metal". :l :lPetesPockets55 wrote:I'll have to see if I can locate my collection of Nails (metal).
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Re: Coin Collecting Tangents
lol: lol: :l :l
It's funny because I have used "Nail" (I'm a carpenter) in some online cribbage sites in the past and one lady asked me if I was a cosmetologist!!!
I was a little confused at first because my first wife was a professional Cosmetologist that only did hair.
Then it dawned on me cosmetologists did nails also.
We both got a good laugh over my confusion.
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Re: Coin Collecting Tangents
Very nice little find. I remember these. It appears someone preserved all these so might be unique as is.
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have 1989 linclon [p] with rotated die error,,, and a 1943 -p- Jefferson war nickel, also rotated die error.... cant seem to find any info on subject... thanx for the site,, rob
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Re: Coin Collecting Tangents
can you post a few pics plz .......
on a "NEW THREAD" ......
whistling2:
on a "NEW THREAD" ......
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Re: Coin Collecting Tangents
Do you mean unique as literally one of a kind, Daniel? That's an insanely lucky find in that case.
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Re: Coin Collecting Tangents
It is a good find but I would rather find something that already has a market established.
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