Saturday Estate Sale Finds

[airborne1092]

Old dude up the mountain crashed his car 1 too many times, and lost his wife several years ago. Friday - Sunday, his son and daughter were at this place, he was giving just about everything in the shop away, and she was selling items inside, getting ready to put teir father into elder care.
I picked up this handfull of stuff, for $20.;
The woman said, her mother worked at a gold mine in AK back in the early 60s and had these pieces made with a couple nuggets she'd found. The others are made out of bone or tusk. There is a unique science experiement, a couple of Pinochle pieces made in Austria, and a key chain full of WA Sales Tax Tokens, and an eye piece. The 7# steel and lead ingots, were free.

 

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[Rhapsody]

Old dude up the mountain crashed his car 1 too many times, and lost his wife several years ago. Friday - Sunday, his son and daughter were at this place, he was giving just about everything in the shop away, and she was selling items inside, getting ready to put teir father into elder care.
I picked up this handfull of stuff, for $20.;
The woman said, her mother worked at a gold mine in AK back in the early 60s and had these pieces made with a couple nuggets she'd found. The others are made out of bone or tusk. There is a unique science experiement, a couple of Pinochle pieces made in Austria, and a key chain full of WA Sales Tax Tokens, and an eye piece. The 7# steel and lead ingots, were free.
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The little indian Zuni looking artifact is way cool, you nailed it dude!

 

[airborne1092]

On mobile, hard to edit; old guy didn't loose his wife in a car wreck, he just had, like his 5th in 5 years apparently.
Also, the Thunderbird broach was a bolo that their grandfather always wore. Their Gma hated it, and fashioned it into a broach instead.

 

[airborne1092]

on closer inspection, I have 53x 1935 aluminum tokens and three 1941 tax law phenolic tokens!

 

[Rhapsody]

on closer inspection, I have 53x 1935 aluminum tokens and three 1941 tax law phenolic tokens!

Sounds like an ebay goldmine there with just a stamp for shipping on each unit sold

 

[crashbandicoot]

Cool! Good 20 bucks spent!

 

[Buchsy]

I see the Zuni artifact, some bone/ivory objects and a "Curiosity Shop" bone Totem. All good stuff, worth more than $20. Not including any of the other objects...Excellent Score