It is a BUCK, closet find

oregon

oregon

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While looking for something, unrelated to cash or cutlery, I found something else:

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I found a 2005 Commemorative 110 Set, sheet of Dollars from a trip to the Denver Mint and a couple of, um, well, ahhhh bucks/silver dollars (lotta bucks in one pic). Makes me wonder what's in the other closets...... Still haven't found what I was looking for. Maybe next time.

The brass bolsters are showing a terrific patina now. The knife was kept in the tin. The tin inside a plastic bag. The bag inside a closet. This plus time is the recipe for a rich lusterous patina.
 
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It's called serendipity.

One of my favorite things.

Love those Idaho stamps.

:)
 
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The Idaho state outline date stamp, representing Buck's 2005 move from sunny California to rugged Idaho, is a terrific stamp. Well chosen Buck.

However, a sheet of bucks with a flashlight at the other end isn't the best photo technique. What other uses for cash, hmmmm.....

sidebar: The Bureau of Engraving makes paper money. The Denver Mint makes coins.
 
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My one and only 110 actually came from one of those holiday tins. It really is a very well made knife.
 
Hey oregon, cut me off a few rows of bills please:D Did you get enough to pay for your trip?

I got my commerative kit a little over a year ago, unopened. It was orange with patina.

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I had to clean it up

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Ordinarilly, and of course, I would do as you ask imafritz. However, and just now, my regular scissors are in the repair shop and I only have these: http://www.expertverdict.com/wcssto...ore//images/large/1329983_w_sq_t_scissors.jpg

So you bought that story about buying that sheet of bucks at the mint and you're probably assuming that there is printing on both sides of the paper. I'm working on it. Gotta be more clever making this kind of thing. Now where did I put that green ink...

You had better believe that I has a bottle of Wright's in my cutlery kit. Worth its weight in gold and thank you kindly for the recco. Love it and so easy to employ. Doesn't knock me out completely unlike other chemicals in my kit like tufglide and straight alcohol do. Not really perfume though.

Yours has a terrific orange patina. Or, more accurately, had. Beautiful before/after pics and knife. THX
 
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Ordinarilly, and of course, I would do as you ask imafritz. However, and just now, my regular scissors are in the repair shop and I only have these: http://www.expertverdict.com/wcssto...ore//images/large/1329983_w_sq_t_scissors.jpg

So you bought that story about buying that sheet of bucks at the mint and you're probably assuming that there is printing on both sides of the paper. I'm working on it. Gotta be more clever making this kind of thing. Now where did I put that green ink...

You had better believe that I has a bottle of Wright's in my cutlery kit. Worth its weight in gold and thank you kindly for the recco. Love it and so easy to employ. Doesn't knock me out completely unlike other chemicals in my kit like tufglide and straight alcohol do. Not really perfume though.

Yours has a terrific orange patina. Or, more accurately, had. Beautiful before/after pics and knife. THX
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I'll wait for your regular scissors and finding the green ink;)

I love that Wrights. I cant believe I swore by NeverDull for all those years, wearing my fingers out. I actually came accross it by accident-I asked my wife to pick up some brasso when she was at the store, they were out and she came home with Wrights-thank heaven.
 
To answer your question in post #5 imafritz "did I get enough to pay for my trip?"

I paid $45 for a sheet/tube with 32 dollar bills and some technical info on paper money and the Bureau of Engraving. I'm easy to get the best of in a bargain wouldn't you say?

I was lucky to find this item at the Denver mint since the paper money, along with many other paper products, is made in DC and TX. I couldn't find the time to visit the Bureau while in DC one year after the towers incident (overwhelmed by the intensity of our history in that neck of the woods I tried to see everything and even did a road trip to terrific Harper's Ferry).
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/home.html
 
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