Some Whatsits

[sportinwood]

Some Whatsit's

Mason jar lid with a porcelain seal?? How old do you t ink it is and is that really what it is

 

[sportinwood]

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Old wind-up toy winder??

 

[sportinwood]

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Play Money??

 

[sportinwood]

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I dunno

 

[sportinwood]

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Iron lids??

 

[Kenosha Kid]

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Look Magazine 25th Anniversary token from 1962 :

https://www.proxibid.com/asp/LotDetail.asp?ahid=2781&aid=21156&lid=5880839

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...d=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_(American_magazine)

 

[sportinwood]

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Look Magazine 25th Anniversary token from 1962 :

https://www.proxibid.com/asp/LotDetail.asp?ahid=2781&aid=21156&lid=5880839

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...d=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_(American_magazine)

Very cool!! Great ID.. Thanks

 

[Kenosha Kid]

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http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...d=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

"Lewis Boyd filed a patent in 1869 for "an improved mode of preventing corrosion in metallic caps" i.e. the glass or "porcelain" lining. This innovation kept food from coming in contact with the zinc in the screw caps. Boyd was actually one of three men who gained control of the patent for screw caps and jars originally filed by John L. Mason in 1858. "Boyd's Porcelain Lined Caps" or zinc screw lids for mason jars were made well into the 20th century (at least the 1950s) and were interchangeable with the millions of mason jars made by hundreds of different manufacturers."

So. hard to put on date on yours but it looks like the one pictured on the bottom right.

 

[lostcauses]

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"toy winder" alarm clock key. The "I dunno" is a part of a clock motor, did you find more iron with this?? Coiled cooper wire? usual has a copper coil around some steel plates stacked together to drive this part of it. Some times recorded players, The cheap kind also used these etc..

http://sound.westhost.com/clocks/motor-f2.jpg

 

[sportinwood]

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You guys are great!! Thanks!