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Silver dime, melted silver fork.

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I went over a yard at work.A house built-in 1955. I found a1948 Roosevelt Dime and a melted silver fork in the same hole. I also found five wheat cents, five Hollywood pin ups clothes pins from the 1940s.the two pieces with three circles it says purity body flavor. Not sure what they are. $3.87 in clad.
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Neat. From an old post by member @PBK:

" Hollywood Pin-Up. In going after the big buyers, Alcoa was not neglecting little markets. Typical was the 'Hollywood Pin-Up,' an aluminum clothespin. Its inventors were two neighbors in Van Nuys, Calif., who got tired of hearing their wives grumble about ersatz clothespins. Alcoa helped them perfect the pin, licensed them to use its color process, 'Alumilite,' at a nominal royalty. Del E. Webb, contractor and co-owner of the New York Yankees, financed them. Last week, the Del E. Webb Products Co. was busy shipping out 80,000 pins a day, expects to use 2,500,000 pounds of aluminum a year. — Time magazine, Dec. 24, 1945."

The item with three interlocking circles is a promotional token for Ballantine's beer, from the 1960s:

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cool finds. The fork is interesting and I really like those Ballantine tokens :icon_thumleft:
 
Nice variety of finds.
 

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