@michaelchase418

9 months ago

Growing up we had one of these in the house. Almost identical, two halves just like this, with a bolt through the middle. The two halves were together and there was a slit in the top of the horses back for coins to be placed through and into the body of the horse. It didn't hold much, but in the late 1890's and early 1900's a few coins maybe 6 to 8 coins that it would hold was a fortune to a kid and a lot of adults. A penny or two or anything silver was a fortune to some back then. A kid in my family that far back might never have seen but a small handful of real money. What wasn't produced was traded for with what was produced. Neighbors produced what they could and you produced what you could, what was in short supply for one neighbor wasn't for the other. Barter and trade was the rule and not the exception. Money wasn't the end goal, it was sought after to have for emergencies and things that couldn't be produced, but there was seldom things that couldn't be produced. We didn't live in a cotton production state, cotton and linen, and things used to make clothing, required money. So what could be sold was sold, what was in excess was traded to those that had need for what we had and vice versa.

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