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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Upstate New York, USA
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These are described as 'gondola hooks' in The Upper Ten: A Novel of the Snobocracy by William Hosea Ballou (1890), p. 75, courtesy of Google Books.
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Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Black Forest, Germany
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One of the medals/coins shows the portrait of pope Pius IX (PONT MAX) 1846-1878, so this piece cannot have been in use before 1846.
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