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Posted 9 months ago
Ted_Straub
(207 items)
The Heinz pickle fork is of plastic, and is not of recent vintage. It is functional, and also a good visual cue for plugging Heinz Pickles.
Though it did not photograph as well as I would have liked, the neat design of the Mr. Peanut peanut butter spreader is apparent.
This third item is the Cloisonne Centennial Pin heralding Planters Peanuts.
The last item is a plastic bank advertising a realtor. The chimney takes most coins, with a slide slot (not visible on this picture) accepting halves.
The garage door slides up, probably to take bills.
I have seen such banks advertising different realtors, so I guess that these were issued throughout the industry.
This one must have some age on it, as the phone number listed has 5 digits!
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I appreciate both of your loves of these items...thanks very much!!!!