Re: I think I can define every one of those.

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Just because I used Antique Keys to make POP bombs in the Fifties does not make me an Antique. But I was born in 1950. I am Almost an Antique not quite though. I learned the game of Poker or at least the vallue of the hands in 1957 and we played for comic books and baseball cards. Maybe an ocasional penny or nickel but if my folks found out about it there was h e l l to pay. lol vbg

The ADULTS played poker and there were poker chips in the house, in the
neighbors house, at all my uncle's houses... everywhere it seemes. Funny that when I rediscovered the Antique chips years later that so many looked so hauntingly familiar. I guess that is why I am still so attracted to them now. I can remember the A$$ whoopin I got at an uncles house for taking a crayola or a pencil or something to an embossed chip like this STAR that Rog sent me...

I can also remember distinctly these old SEARS chips in a rack at another uncles place.

There were several others including this one... When I was about sixteen or so... my best friend and I were playing around with a barn full of old Harley Davidson parts that his father had in Northern Michigan in about 1964 '65. The barn was from an old Milk farm that had been abandoned and the milking stahls were all filled with old Harley Davidson parts. One stahl was full of flywheels, the next was full of crank cases, the next fenders and gas tanks, trannys and so on... We spent many hours in the barn trying to figure out what worked and what fit with what and what we had and what was missing. We managed to put together a couple of WW trikes from the lot and in our teens we got so good at it that we had everything to put a couple of the EL Knucks together... only one problem... no JUGS... I think that might have been where Dee Dee Lind came in... no that was earlier... never mind! After many many hours and the help of another friend that had a BRIDGEPORT MACHINE we were able to fit PAN JUGS on the knuckle top & bottom... oh Smith make a long story short PLEASE! ANYWAY... there were several steel drawers with miscelaneaous parts that over the years we learned to identify. vbg

Somewhere long about about 1967 we discovered MILLER HIGH LIFE and the joys that came with it... too toasted at times we would play this game of pulling a part out of one of the steel bins and say... OK what is it? ... 3rd gear Pan Head...OK what is it? ... Derby follower from the K model... we got damn good at this... 9/16 fine thread game but there were about a hundred STONE COLD STUMPERS that could not be identified in the old bin and when one of us thought he was so good that he could not be beat, the other would pull one of these out of the bin... ummmm ... duh... I think ummm.... that one is from the ahhhhh... the drawer had about 100 or so of these 9/16 mystery friggin items in red and black that were always the final stumper... Aww /He ll I don now wats at thang... vbg

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