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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Okay, just what are those two pinbacks below the P2 pins in this scrapbook?

http://tinyurl.com/6zna34

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Posted By: scgaynor

some kind of a homemade thing using T206's

Scott

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

possibly homemade.........never seen anything like 'em before, so I vote for homemade........

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Posted By: paul muchinsky

I fully agree these are homemade pins. To me, the more interesting question is when were these pins made, and how were they made? Modern pinmaking presses don't typically have 7/8" dies. The technology for a person to create such a pin didn't exist 100 years ago. That narrows the range of options. I will clearly vote for homemade, with the caveat they weren't made in anyone's home. I'd say somebody had a friend who worked at a pinmaker like Whitehead and Hoag, and these were run as a favor to the friend.

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

surfaces looks to be REALLY nice.......hard to believe something as thick as a T206 could have been used for the background too..............I'm sure you'd love to examine them, huh?

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Posted By: DD

I just won this item:



I don't know if the dates match up with T206. Point is that you could have sent pictures away and had pinbacks made from them.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Wow! Great score David. I wonder if that's what the scrapbook owner did in this case.