Brass safety Pins for what ?

[salty dog]

Any idea what these could have been used for and about what time period ? They look like they are brass and one has F 68 and the other U 15.

 

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[Montana Jim]

Cool! Nice ID Mrs. O!

 

[DiggerBug]

In the 60's at a local State Park swimming pool we frequented they issued these pins that coordinated with a basket to keep your valuable in while you swam. We pinned them to our towels.

 

[aa battery]

Thanks for the post salty dog we dug up some of those at a WW2 Army air base here in CA.

 

[salty dog]

Thanks for the info everyone!
These will definitely stay in my collection.

 

[JRich98150]

We used to get similar but more modern looking numbered pins when we went swimming at the local parks and such. This was around the early 60's. We'd change our cloths and put on the swim trunks, the cloths went into a basket which was "checked in" and we'd get a numbered safety pin which we'd pin to our trunks. When we were ready to leave we'd surrender the numbered pin and usually (not always!) get a basket with our cloths in them...or unfortunately occasionally you might get a basket we someone else's cloths which usually was only a pair of shorts or such. It was a long walk home barefooted.

 

[salty dog]

Thanks for the post JRich98150.