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Almost a 100 year old pin....

REVIER

REVIER

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Love finding great things, love discovering the history of those finds.
http://vintagekidstuff.com/mhc/mhc.html

All I have is my cell phone so the pic is not great but it looks fantastic in person.
Really tarnished but cleaned up nice and came in high so I suspect it is silver.
Better pic of another one I pulled off the web next to it.

I believe this was given to a kid around 1919 and found in an old park in an area that had a bunch of homes back then.
 
Better pic of mine....
 
Nice old pin!
 
Very cool. It looks like this pin would have been given to a child who sold 100 to 200 seals and would have been silver. I found this description online.
 
Just found the same style pin but from 1919-1920 today. Couldn't believe it cause I was really jealous of your find! Of all the things to see on this site and want to find, and a couple days later actually finding one under a sidewalk is crazy. That's for the link or I would've never known what this was!!!!
 
Flanaganj25 said:
Just found the same style pin but from 1919-1920 today. Couldn't believe it cause I was really jealous of your find! Of all the things to see on this site and want to find, and a couple days later actually finding one under a sidewalk is crazy. That's for the link or I would've never known what this was!!!!
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CongratZ...great find, display it proudly!

Doing research I found several posts on different forums from hunters that found this type and others over the years but never really understood what they were or their history.
Tuberculosis was one of the biggest killer diseases we ever had in this country so what these pins represent is significant.

Recently it has made a comeback worldwide so still significant...

"In response to the resurgence of tuberculosis, the World Health Organization issued a declaration of a global health emergency in 1993. Every year, nearly half a million new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are estimated to occur worldwide."

I have always said finding out about the history of my finds is sometimes just as fun as actually digging up the items themselves.
This hobby turned me into a history buff and I will be ever thankful.
 
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