© Frank H. Jump
Tonight we went to my mother’s house to help her organize her linen closet and drawers in her kitchen and we found this tin that belonged to my grandfather, Frans Ludwig Broekveldt, II.
Atlantic Monthly – Vol. 123 – Jan – June 1919 – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
Baker and Company produced a soluble coffee labeled as Barrington Hall. During World War II, the United States government took over Baker and Company to produce K rations for Allied Troops. – Treasure Trove -The National Museum of Military History (NMMH) Diekirch
Soluble Coffee and Products a Staple After War PRODUCTION capacity has been tripled by- producers of soluble coffee and … General Foods and Barrington
-Hall are expected to compete for the soluble coffee and soluble coffee products business American Institute of Food Distribution., 1944 – Weekly Digest – Volume 33 – Page 25
We opened the tin, and to our surprise found these shiny silver coins from WWII Netherlands © Frank H. Jump
The coins bearing the fourth portrait of Wilhelmina, from 1922 to 1945, were downgraded to 0.720 silver, which lowered their weight to 9.9g. Three different privy marks were issued: a seahorse from 1922 to 1931, grapes from 1938 to 1940 and an acorn from 1941 to 1945. During the Nazi German occupation of the Netherlands, no guilder coins were issued of the zinc coins circualted by the Nazis, but Dutch guilder coins were struck in the United States. In 1943 they were struck at theDenver Mint in Colorado and in 1944 at the Philadelphia Mint in Pennsylvania and the San Francisco Mint in California. In 1945, 25,375,000 were issued in Philadelphia. – Wikipedia
Dutch 10 cent & 25 cent pieces from 1944 that were minted in Philadelphia during WWII © Frank H. Jump
