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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Worlds Fair Shovel

« on: January 12, 2012, 02:19:44 am »

I know you some of you guys doubt that this is an antique, but being from the "Show Me" state I did a little digging( No Pun intended)

This is what I found
First I Googled Worlds Fair tools, and I couldn't find a brand named that
next I searched for
Worlds Fair Coal and ended up finding this
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/dogtown/fair/fair-mine.html

I don't want to be one of those guys who insist something is an antique when it clearly is not but I'm just trying to be sure.

Soo now I'm thinking that it was a year older then I thought before and used to move coal before the fair.

Is this plausible?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Worlds Fair Shovel

« on: January 10, 2012, 07:27:31 pm »

Could you tell me from where you found it for sale? My grandma thinks its from the 50's and I have my doubts, I'm wondering if that listing you found was her trying to sell it.

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Antique Questions Forum / Worlds Fair Shovel

« on: January 10, 2012, 06:30:11 pm »

Greetings,

My grandmother moved into a home about 50 years ago near Forest Park in St.Louis and she found this shovel in the basement. What is the history of this shovel? Is it from the 1904 worlds fair? How much is it worth?

Thank you in advance.