I’ve about decided to ask Santa for a metal detector this Christmas. I’ve never owned or used one but I love hunting for old stuff and think it might be a fun hobby. Ha, I hope to be retiring in a few years!
Anyway, I found this bib overall train button (surface find) about 20 years ago at a ghost town in De Baca County, New Mexico. I think it would be early 1900s, possibly manufactured by Grove Manufacturing, which changed its name to OshKosh in 1897. I was just reading that they originally manufactured work clothes, like the old striped men’s overalls before they became a manufacturer of children’s clothing.
My grandfather was a railroad foreman in this county in the early 1900s and he always wore overalls with a red can of Prince Albert tobacco in the bib pocket. He rolled his own. His overalls weren’t striped though, just solid blue denim.
Anyway, I found this bib overall train button (surface find) about 20 years ago at a ghost town in De Baca County, New Mexico. I think it would be early 1900s, possibly manufactured by Grove Manufacturing, which changed its name to OshKosh in 1897. I was just reading that they originally manufactured work clothes, like the old striped men’s overalls before they became a manufacturer of children’s clothing.
My grandfather was a railroad foreman in this county in the early 1900s and he always wore overalls with a red can of Prince Albert tobacco in the bib pocket. He rolled his own. His overalls weren’t striped though, just solid blue denim.
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