Just wanted to share something cool from the 1880s with genuine racketeer nickels
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that is pretty cool.
neat
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Very nice... is that also an 'antique' pencil?.... I had one of those racketeer nickels... have been searching for it and cannot find it.... hope I did not spend it
.... No, I am sure that did not happen... it is somewhere here. Cheers, RickO
Very interesting!
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very nice. am interested what something like this is worth on the open market?
And I really hope you didn't spend it and pass it off as a $5. You know better
Thank you. I wonder what the F in the shield stands for. Maybe early Gorham
Yes that's the original pencil too
I got this in a lot with Tiffany and Cartier items so fingers crossed its something good. It's known as a chatelaine but they typically were made for women.
Yep I like it
Those are some very neat items.
Thanks for showing them.
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Love the pencil holder.
Fantastic score!
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In the French language, a chatelaine is the mistress of a large house or castle. "Chatelaine" automatically denotes a female or something feminine.
Looks like a pencil used by a Carpenter.
Very cool.
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What is the little pot looking thing?
I was wondering the same, since the pencil and container are chained to a ring.
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Snuff pot
That's pretty neat. I have an old racketeer nickel around here some place - have to dig it out.
Does the pencil unsnap from the cap so you can put the cap over the lead? Seems like one would not want the pencil lead to soil ones finery!
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The pot looking thing holds coins (nickel size). Good thought CAMEONUT. I'll have to check that out.
Would love if anyone could identify the markings to match it with a maker.
I suspect that pot was for stuff, or maybe for or a perfumed cloth, often needed when navigating the smelly and dirty street of the era.
Exactly, the women used a scent flask that I received in this same lot with the original sterling funnel. This couple was certainly living the high life as the woman had custom Tiffany shoe buckles made as well. Then she might see an enemy and use her poison ring lololol.
Maybe that is where she kept her husband's Viagra.
That is a great collection of silver. If it all came from the same owner it would be great if it could be kept intact as a collection. It is a fascinating group of relics from a bygone era.
Here's my racketeer nickel with reeded edge. Sorry for the crappy cellphone photos. Took these a while ago and couldn't find the image of the reverse.
Nice handcut reeding. They were really working for their 4.95 profit.
$4.95 does not seem like much today, but $1 a day was a common wage, so, for a little gold plate and an hour of reeding work, that is a pretty good weeks wage of work.
Nice vintage Racketeer nickels!
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Very cool collection of silver, and the Nickel is awesome.
The mark on the little pot thingy appears to be J. F. Fradley. I haven't found the other one yet.
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Yes, I agree. The detail work (cheaper back then in any case) was well worth the effort.
I will have to dig out my Racketeer nickels - I think I have one with (badly) handcut reeds, as well as one with the V filed off and a large 5 neatly punched in its place.
So cool.!.!
Thanks for sharing!
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Very cool stuff!
I guess I never knew that they went through the trouble of reeding the edges of some of the racketeer nickels. Very cool!
This is the one that I posted above. Hand done reeding but done pretty well (and deep), Someone took their time with this one, yet it says cents on the back. Either someone couldn't read or someone spent a lot of time trying to mimic one? I guess that's what you did when there was no TV.
The reeding on this one was more sloppily done and they're not that deep.
This one has a plain edge.
