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[johnnyi]

I spent a few minutes with the nugget coil today going over some soil in the garden which I keep turning over the years, and where I'd found early large cents and colonials before. It's a two wheeled cart which says "U.S.M." (U.S. Mail) and it isn't even broken like all the other toys I find! There is so much iron in the soil that despite it being only a couple inches down, it was a miserable signal.

 

[jgas]

Rain sleet and even hail won't stop that baby from delivering! Nice find...jgas

 

[Ia.FurTrade]

Hard to believe that survived.......nice find!!
Dale

 

[Don in SJ]

Great find John, any markings on it at all to help determine the age of it? Bet that is a nice collectors item!!

Don

 

[johnnyi]

Thanks Don. Were it not for me finding a few things like this once in a while, my wife wouldn't allow me to dig up the yard quite as much as I do!

 

[PBK]

Great find!

Listed by White as a c. 1920's Cracker Jack toy. Reported in red and green japanned finishes.

 

[johnnyi]

Thanks PBK! I think next time I play monopoly I'll use this thing instead of the shoe.

 

[DigginThePast]

Neat find. I like the Monopoly idea.

 

[BIG61AL]

amazing that it did not corrode away into nothing. Really cool little keepper.

 

[rebeljim52]

very nice

 

[allen]

now that is a cool find !!!