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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 118908, member: 25"]Looks like a bit of home made shed work. What the stems are made of depends on what the maker had handy. Even if they were silver stems the value would be small, coin spoons are not uncommon and ones featuring coins from the 40s are the commonest of all. I suspect there was a cottage industry making these things for the visiting troops, which in Australia would be mainly sailors.</p><p><br /></p><p>The commonest are made with Dutch coins. Australia is not common but not valuable due to lack of demand.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only comparables ever worth looking at are sold items. People have many wierd ideas about what their stuff is worth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 118908, member: 25"]Looks like a bit of home made shed work. What the stems are made of depends on what the maker had handy. Even if they were silver stems the value would be small, coin spoons are not uncommon and ones featuring coins from the 40s are the commonest of all. I suspect there was a cottage industry making these things for the visiting troops, which in Australia would be mainly sailors. The commonest are made with Dutch coins. Australia is not common but not valuable due to lack of demand. The only comparables ever worth looking at are sold items. People have many wierd ideas about what their stuff is worth.[/QUOTE]
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