It's been a while since i have picked up a new cent sample slab. Was glad to get this one as it's not seen for sale very often. The Red border is the significant part of this one. This gets me to 112 different cent sample slabs.
1918 Krieg's geld, These pieces aren't really that expensive, Krieg's is war in German and geld is Money. Krieg's geld falls under the larger heading of notgeld, or emergency money. Hundreds of different types of notgeld were produced in Germany during the first and second world war. I really liked the design of this one. Paid about a 1.60 german antique shop.
For the older crowd you may remember, the Airstream travel trailer caravan clubs trips of large numbers of people that would go as a group to various exotic places pulling their Silver bullet trailers. Here is a key chain token/dangle from one of the trips to a U S city
Was this design made in other metals. I really only bought it because of the patriot design and overcomb, instead of overcome.
A couple of medical additions to my 'mother-baby' theme. First is a medal by Devreese. Dr. Edouard Kufferath was a Belgian OB, renown as an excellent teacher, and who pioneered using aseptic rules which led to a significant decrease in mother/baby mortality. He also described new techniques and had a set of delivery forceps named after him. I like this medal as it shows him with a model of a pelvis and what appears to be a pelvimetry/measuring device. The second is by Lancelot-Croce, a French artist who eventually married an Italian and moved to Italy with him. I had spotted this medal very early in my adult collecting days and have been wanting it ever since. Another one of those 10 year finds! And, reasonably priced, in excellent condition, and with its original box. This one features Dr. Pinard, who has a maneuver for the delivery of twins named after him that is still used today. He also was a proponent and leader in pre/perinatal care and patient education regarding maternal and infant health. The title on the medal "puericulteure" is the masculine version of the current work "puericultrice" which is what a maternal-newborn nurse is now called. The translation on the reverse/bottom is "The milk of the mother belongs to the child". Now that I have it in hand, I can see a similarity between this one and one of my other all time favorites, also by Lancelot-Croce (The Work of the Barbarians): and the detail of the tiny face/hands (the latter is from a silver version): and Today was a good mail day!
Hi Bruce .... Here's the one you didn't see. I believe it's the stamp of David R. Ramsay, listed as a "punchcutter" in the 1849 NY City Directory. The relatively uncommon name and initials make him the most likely issuer, methinks. Then too, why wouldn't a guy who made punches for others not have one of his own? Brunk listed but one specimen, # R-61, and this may well be the one in his census. Ramsay is absent from subsequent NY directories, and given the lack of more of his counterstamps, I can only guess that he found another occupation elsewhere.
Found Roll Hunting Small Dollars today! Cost me a dollar unfortunately! No idea where it is from or what it is. Both sides are identical . I guess I am now an angle
It is a generic token that is given out at hospitals, churches and by people that what to lift the spirits of people that are fighting depression. And the like first thing they go for .50 to $1.00 @ LCS bargain boxes. You can find them and more types googling angel coins. It is also used as a good luck piece and safe travel token.
After a long and tedious negotiations with Circus we were able to made such a deal and no polls were required. We were able to work this out. Thank you Circus!!! Teddy Roosevelt campaign pin The red printing has gone mostly away. The moose was for the Progressive party.