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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 399760, member: 25"]It appears to have been used as a watch fob, as could be anything from a mounted rabbit foot to a lucky musket ball (the one that just misssed you) and I can't think of much else you could do with it.</p><p>Around 1900 there were milllions of watch chains from gold down to plated base metal so many things that could fit a waistcoat pocket were used, and many have survived, including what wold be valuable coins now if they did not have holes punched in them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 399760, member: 25"]It appears to have been used as a watch fob, as could be anything from a mounted rabbit foot to a lucky musket ball (the one that just misssed you) and I can't think of much else you could do with it. Around 1900 there were milllions of watch chains from gold down to plated base metal so many things that could fit a waistcoat pocket were used, and many have survived, including what wold be valuable coins now if they did not have holes punched in them.[/QUOTE]
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