Way too slow here lately!!!!!.................. Take a look!......

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

Here is one of the two large cents that I found last Saturday. It is only partially cleaned. Notice the side by side holes that someone was putting in it years ago. The holes don't go all the way through, but they did start on the other side also. You can also see near the date where they had hit it with something and flattened it a little. I think maybe they were going to make a wizzer out of it? Maybe a button? There is still some crust, so back in the olive oil it went with the other one. The details are pretty good underneath the crud! The date is 1849.

[attachment 35739 DSC02907.JPG]

[attachment 35740 DSC02911.JPG]

 

[Pete in MI]

I thought only old farts like me knew anything about a 'whizzer'. For those who don't know what a whizzer is it is a button (or could be a coin with holes punched in it) with a string passing through both holes and the ends tied. One end is put on the finger of one hand and the other on the finger of the other hand. The 'whizzer' is then spun around to tighten the string then with a in and out motion of the hands the whizzer spins and makes a - lol - whizzing sound. Hence the name 'whizzer'.

I used to make them a long time ago and had all but forgotten about them. Thanks Mike for the walk down memory lane.

 

[Mike Chgo area]

n/t

 

[Philo_NY]

n/t

 

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

play with a large button and string many, many times and many other games with string and we also played hot and cold by someone hiding a button, usually dad, and when we hunted for it, he would say either warm, hot, cool or cold until we found it!

Those were the days when store bought toys were very few and we made our own toys and games!

God Bless!
Betty

 

[VT Dave]

cool toys when ya don't have anything else!

 

[Dennis]

Thanks Betty for sending my old brain on a trip down memory lane.

 

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

used to pick witch hazels and other nuts, seeds & such and using mom's old canning jars and lids we would pretend to can them! I used to cut out letters from Cereal boxes and packages and use them to spell words like they do now with Magnetic Alphabet letters and a board. Many ways to make your own toys....even out of the red, white and grey clay from the river banks. My cousin made his toy guns out of molded clay!

Those were the good old days!

God Bless!
Betty