An excellent conjecture...and there is an elder Mason of my acquaintance who will be happy to advise on it! Thank you!
Pawing thru misc silver coinage yesterday, hoping to find some plain stuff to make a quick buck on when the white metal again gets to $30...found...
This was a gift from a friend who had 'invested' in 37 fake iron-core Chinese coins...many Fat-Man & similar others. This was the only large one...
I think I never saw a Morgan I didn't find attractive. That's lovely! wlw
Interestingly, there are only two back-side finger-nail marks showing that coins were removed after insertion. These appear to be just as they...
Actually it's two albums, and neither are in great shape. But they do hold them coppers! 1924-S is there; sorry about the crummy resolution on...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The fellow had to have $4 for the lot. I'm familiar with wheaties, as I grew up with them and...
Thanks, all. I spent a year in my late teens (1959) in an aircraft factory tube-bending department. The tubes were bent on machinery using a...
First, Acetone, like almost every highly volatile solvent, does it's job by dissolving (and thereby absorbing) whatever the unwanted material is...
Here's the first: https://www.ebay.com/itm/223520224830 The second was listed 5 minutes later. Thanks for looking! wlw [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I followed the link & it's still up...and I'm watching! Maybe the price is a typo? wlw
One day at a time, ol' fella...wallow in each & every one!
I've had very good results with Alpha Glue (Crazy Glue) when carefully applied to Acetone or Lacquer thinner-cleaned surfaces. I repair all manner...
Edward...You've gotta get lots better pics, if there's to be any accurate response to your query. Probably several members can recognize that coin...
Almost every time I see coins like this (or pics of them) I get dizzy! There are literally thousands of almost alike cash coins...minted over the...
Compared to the rest of the work, that wee wire is almost a joke...an afterthought! It will swivel 360, and wobbles some...but doesn't have any...
First time ever I saw the term eZest wuz right here & now...an' it's a lesson not soon forgotten, after looking at those before & after shots. I...
Remarkable, to me, is the spirit of post-war Germany epitomized by that Eagle! Not even a decade after an ignominious defeat, a German artist...
What little I know about Sanskrit: it's the religious language of Hinduism. And that may well be wrong! What I would like is a translation. This...
~23.9mm diameter, ~8.9mm thick; 15.7grams The soldier is better focused than my pic shows; the clear 'lens' looks to have been poured...that is,...
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