Hoard of Costume jewelry.

[Garabaldi]

Anyone have any idea what the plastic box with the round I.D. tags are? They had her last name ENGLANDER and the hospital "Beth Isreal Hospital" The hospital is in Brookline mass. I found all of it in boston buried in a plastic bag. There is a lucky charm police looking badge that has her full name. Leslie Joy Englander, from Newton Mass.
Any ideas if the disks are her birth tags?

 

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[CRUSADER]

Re: Hoard of jewelry.

Box looks Art Deco circa 1930s. Jewellery looks mostly costum stuff, not sure on the discs

 

[kenley]

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The badge thing is one of those souvenier things that you can still get in arcades. You put in a quarter and stamp out the name by pushing a lever, much like a stencil machine.

 

[Mackaydon]

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The Beth Israel Hospital was founded in 1916. It merged with the New England Deaconess Hospital in 1996 to form the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
That seems to be your date range on the tags.
Don.......

 

[Montana Jim]

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Plastic or gutta percha?

 

[Garabaldi]

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Montana, the circular hospital tags seem to made of tin. The plastic container may or may not have been given with the tags. I wonder if this person was robbed? This is my most bizzar find. I am trying to research this girl and get in touch with her. I am not sure why they would have burried all these items in plastic bags. They were in a patch of woods with tons of beer cans, bottles, tarps. Seems like drifters had lived there before.

 

[72cheyenne]

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Montana, the circular hospital tags seem to made of tin. The plastic container may or may not have been given with the tags. I wonder if this person was robbed? This is my most bizzar find. I am trying to research this girl and get in touch with her. I am not sure why they would have burried all these items in plastic bags. They were in a patch of woods with tons of beer cans, bottles, tarps. Seems like drifters had lived there before.

This looks like possibly the contents of the named person's jewelry box. It may have been stolen, the real jewelry was kept, and the rest was discarded in plastic bags in the woods. Just a theory.

 

[Garabaldi]

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I agree with you 100% 72 cheyenne. I am trying to find them, because the hopital tags may have sentimental value.
Hope I can find her.

 

[Tricia]

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May be refugee identification tags.

Leslie Joy who is an Englander(WWII way of saying she was from England) Good Luck - meaning good luck when you get resettled.

Newton might be where she was headed. Why is it upside down? Because if you are wearing the "badge" and look down at it it'll say Newton from the correct perspective.

 

[Tricia]

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On jpg 979, the cufflinks. I think they're upside down. Those are the scales of justice. Or some kind of scales.

 

[Garabaldi]

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Tricia,
I found a web site that has an image of the good luck token. Its down the mid way down the page of this site,
http://www.luckymojo.com/goodluckcoins.html
The token has the word Neisner, which I searched and it was a department store. I think she may have visited the store in some state and bought it as a keep sake. She put her name and place she lived on it, Newton MA. As far as refugee I.D. tags, could be possible.

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

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Box looks like Bakelite, 1930-1940's. And that's all I know. Cool find, all!
Carl

 

[Garabaldi]

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Curb is Bakelite a form of plastic? It's flexible like plastic.

 

[Montana Jim]

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Box looks like Bakelite, 1930-1940's. And that's all I know. Cool find, all!
Carl

That's what I was asking Garabaldi, was the box plastic or maybe gutta percha, or like Carl asked - maybe bakelite?

It will help date it.

 

[Garabaldi]

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Ohe I thought you were talking about the hospital tags. They're plastic. Is Bakelite a plastic material?

 

[Montana Jim]

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Ohe I thought you were talking about the hospital tags. They're plastic. Is Bakelite a plastic material?

Yes... it's an early plactic (or resin) made with a wood flour and other stuff.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

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The badge thing is one of those souvenier things that you can still get in arcades. You put in a quarter and stamp out the name by pushing a lever, much like a stencil machine.

Yes she stamped her name on one of these machines. Jeff PA has a handfull of them. What a very interesting find. Cant somebody search her name online?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

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Tricia,
The token has the word Neisner, which I searched and it was a department store. I think she may have visited the store in some state and bought it as a keep sake. She put her name and place she lived on it, Newton MA.

Where does it say Neisner?

 

[Garabaldi]

[/quote]Cant somebody search her name online?
[/quote]
I was hoping someone would, I do not have access to a geniological site.

 

[Garabaldi]

One side in the middle has a clover and good luck, the other side has Neisner in the middle with "shop and save".