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I also dug up this hexagon shaped (cricket umpires?) article.
It's engraved with the words "no ball,caught,LBW" etc.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owzthat

It's a part from a game called "Owzthat" I vaguely recall playing it round a cricket mad mates house, that & subutteo on wet weekends. Funnily enough he was called David Lloyd & came from Blackpool.

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Cheers for that D,go to the top of the class,I didn't have the foggiest what it was.
I could get my head around why a umpire would need such a article.

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Here's another little object I found a small thimble like object with a green (glass?) dice inside.
However,I can't see folk back in the day being able to put the dice marking on a glass dice without it breaking :confused:


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I believe it is a thimble & it's being used to protect the glass dice in this instance.

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I'll take your word for it R.
I know with modern day lasers etc it would be easy to mark the glass but I erroneously assumed that due to its size,approximately half inch squared, the surface area would be extremely difficult to work with the technology of days gone by without it shattering....

...we live and learn :)

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I have a thimble identical to that one (same pattern) - owned by my grandmother - look for a hallmark - mine is silver.

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Sadly,there is no hallmark so I suspect it's probably a mixture of other metals :(
That being said,there is no signs of corrosion something that would be obvious if it was a mixture of metals.

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Today's items of note include:-

2 shoe buckles?
2 old pennies (1898&1896)
1 ARP (cap badge?)
1 decapitated lead figure
1 old 10p coin and £6.40 in spendable coins.

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Any golfers out there know what this item was used for?

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Looks like a spinning top which determines play or forfeit in a game I know nothing about..

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its the Golf equivalent of the cricket game one you found in an earlier post

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Put and take game -
http://averweij.web.cern.ch/averweij/top-pt.htm

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Today's finds of note include:-

2 old pennies (1867 & 1919)
1 half a crown (1948)
1 handgranade (key charm?)

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