Key return tag
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bruinvikes
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no idea, but that is a cool find
Geez
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How are Combined Registry and Combined Insurance related?
DIGGER27
In Memory Of
Same company.
http://www.combinedinsurance.com/about-combined/combined-insurance-history.html
These type of tags were distributed as an advertising fob by several companies in the past.
Car dealerships were big on this type of thing, too.
Nice find!
40acre1870
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Very cool find. I remember, sometime last year, someone found one for a gas company in St. Louis, if I recall correctly and the old Ford keys were still attached. They were pretty old too...
Mike
Mike
azdirtdigger
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I found this last year. I was able to date it by the Secretary of State's name. He served in the 1920's and again in the early 1930's. They look to be made very similar, so may well be dated about the same.
Hope that helps.
Hope that helps.
Hello SBA701 - Nice find, congrats!
These pieces were used as key tags also. We found this one, dated "1920" last fall, it is from a hotel that burned down around 1930.
I really enjoy digging stuff like this because there is a story around many of these finds and there is more "airconditioned-with-a-cold-beer-digggin'" to discover the story after the finding them.
These pieces were used as key tags also. We found this one, dated "1920" last fall, it is from a hotel that burned down around 1930.
I really enjoy digging stuff like this because there is a story around many of these finds and there is more "airconditioned-with-a-cold-beer-digggin'" to discover the story after the finding them.
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40acre1870
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Ha Ha... Spot on! I agree 100%. There are three aspects to this hobby that I find extremely rewarding, the recovery, the research and the cleaning.
Mike
Too right!! We sometimes spend more time after a hunt with the cleaning, eye-balling, and research than we did finding the items.
Coins are great and I love finding them but mystery relics are sometimes better.
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