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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.
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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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