Where I find rare wheat's ,buffalo's and silver cheap or free to this day and you can too !

newcollect · August 6, 2017 1:01AM

Bare with me on this it is all relevant, in the early 70's my first job when I was 12 was in my fathers vacuum shop as repairman. The guy teaching me had a coffee can on the work bench that was filled with coins and of course I had to ask about them, he said he finds them in the vacuums. These were not run of the mill vacuums these were Kirby's an expensive vacuum sold door to door
and most of these were financed in the old days. Kirby made a coin bank in the handle specifically to hide coins and as a closing tool for the salesman. The salesman would simply say at the close it only costs (10c,25c or whatever) per day to own it, here let me get you started and slip a coin or two into the handle.They sold millions of these and a lot people continued to put coins in there Kirby's and the forgot about them. We repaired about 150 vacuums a month at the time for customers and a few of our own trade ins for resale and most of the time there was at least one coin in every vacuum i found over 100 many times in one vacuum. Yes, we would give them back to the customers but most of the time the said to just keep them. That's how I got started in coins, so if you see an old kirby check the handle fork it is a tube that runs from the grip to the motor on the models made till 1968 after that it was a handle fork with a plastic back and has a thumb screw that you can turn to take the back off. The best way to tell is to turn the vacuum up end on the handle and you can here the coins fall. How cool is that?