Mine again... Wooden nickel!

[lab rat]

Found this wooden nickel on Ebay a few weeks back, and got it for a fair price. Just one of those things I collect! Anyway, I figured I could take it to my lab and remove the gob of goo from the one side and the paint from the other.

Turns out that the 'paint' was actually white out, coming off fairly easy with acetone. I know it was white out because underneath was written a name in ball point pen. When I saw the name, I recognized it-- I had put the white out over it to cover it up back when I was about 10 years old! The gob was glue I put on the other side when I was building a model airplane.

My grandmother gave me about a half dozen of these wooden nickels when I was nine or so. I don't remember what happened to them, and the seller was listing them from her deceased father's estate. She had no idea where he got them, either. Gone missing for about 40 years...

What a kick! buying stuff on Ebay I once had as a kid!

 

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[duffytrash]

thats kewl!!!do you just collect wooden nickles

 

[housemom6]

That is really bizarre. Amazing to find something that was yours. I had a bunch of those when I was little too. I got some of them at the Danbury(ct) state fair and I seem to remember a bank in our area gave them away.

 

[housemom6]

Was the person who sold it on eBay from your area ?

 

[vpnavy]

 

[diggummup]

Great story and remarkable to find your own wooden nickel again after so many years. Incredible.

 

[deteknix]

Seems very rare. Interesting!

 

[Hunter612]

Found this wooden nickel on Ebay a few weeks back, and got it for a fair price. Just one of those things I collect! Anyway, I figured I could take it to my lab and remove the gob of goo from the one side and the paint from the other.

Turns out that the 'paint' was actually white out, coming off fairly easy with acetone. I know it was white out because underneath was written a name in ball point pen. When I saw the name, I recognized it-- I had put the white out over it to cover it up back when I was about 10 years old! The gob was glue I put on the other side when I was building a model airplane.

My grandmother gave me about a half dozen of these wooden nickels when I was nine or so. I don't remember what happened to them, and the seller was listing them from her deceased father's estate. She had no idea where he got them, either. Gone missing for about 40 years...

What a kick! buying stuff on Ebay I once had as a kid!

Do you have any like this? This one says it is good for one pack of baseball cards.

 

[lab rat]

To answer the questions-- basically I collect older stuff from my hometown of Placerville, including wooden nickels, tokens, milk caps, matchbooks, postcards, fruit labels, embossed bottles, various miscellaneous stuff. Some is memorabilia from when I was a kid, and some is much older (like the bottles). I'm no expert on wooden nickels, just have a few from that area. Here are a few pix-- just as examples.

 

[packerbacker]

Neat story!!

 

[River Rat]

Neat story!!

I agree!