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safeinOhio

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Fri Oct 31, 2014, 04:56 PM Oct 2014

Some items are cool even if they don't have much value. [View all]

I recently bought a collection of steel die embossers/stamps. Paid very little for it and had to struggle looking in a mirror to read what they said. Most have a mushroomed head where they had been hit with a hammer or a press. Looks like all are from the late 1900s. About 10 of them have patent dates, others the names of companies. The coolest are one from an old defunct rail road and the other is from a steam ship line. Can't find any on Ebay or the google of that vintage. There must be a collector some where looking for them. I will put them in the mall for $5 to $10 and see what happens.

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