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Yuko
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Between 1860 and 1920 the use of tokens to pay wages to the workers of the tasks nitrate was common in all of them.
A wide varieties of chips in metal: brass, aluminum, copper,
lead, nickel. Also there Ebonite and cardboard.
There were more than 300 offices nitrate in the former provinces of Tarapaca and Antofagasta.
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Thanks Kevin for the translation - I just sent a not to Yuko suggesting a translation website, so hopefully future posts will be bilingual :)
Your collections are great Yuko; thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much Hunter, AR8Jason for the help.
Every day you can learn something new.
Yuko
For 15 years I have collected cards nitrate, my collection of 475 pieces of 170 different offices, among them are cardboard, hard rubber, copper, bronze, nickel, lead, aluminum and paper.
Yuko
For many years I've collected records nitrate and investigated its history. Thank you very much for sharing with my hobby Collectors Weekly with you : Hunter ,
packrat-place , AR8Jason , mrmajestic1
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