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Metal detecting holidays in England with the Worlds most successful metal detecting club Twinned with Midwest Historical Research Society USA |
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| A dreidel (Yiddish: דרײדל dreydl, Hebrew: סביבון Sevivon) is a four-sided top, played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The dreidel is used for a gambling game similar to Teetotum. Each side of the dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet: נ (Nun), ג (Gimel), ה (Hei), ש (Shin), which together form the acronym for "נס גדול היה שם" (Nes Gadol Haya Sham – "a great miracle happened there"). These letters also form a mnemonic for the rules of a gambling game played with a dreidel: Nun stands for the Yiddish word nit ("nothing"), Hei stands for halb ("half"), Gimel for gants ("all"), and Shin for shteln ("put"). In the state of Israel, the fourth side of most dreidels is inscribed with the letter פ (Pei), rendering the acronym, נס גדול היה פה, Nes Gadol Haya Po—"A great miracle happened here" referring to the fact that the miracle occurred in the land of Israel | |||
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Great eyeball
find early glass marbles |
19thC lead
Indian figure |
Early lead
gaming counter |
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Great eyeball
find, early bone dice |
Roman 1st
to 4thC lead dice(b) |
Silver
charm bracelet pig |
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20thC toy
soldier |
19th Frog
box lid |
20thC Cowboy
lead toy |
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My new
set of wheels !(d) |
German
army lead soldier(b) |
18thC child's
lead wiz toy(r) |
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Tiny flintlock
pistol toy. probably 18thC(c) |
Solid silver
butterfly |
Albert,
Queen Victoria's husband, looks late 1800's |
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Dino the
dinosaur !! |
My six
shooter find !!!!!!!!! |
Early glass
marble |
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Lead rabbit
19thC |
Texan six
shooter handle !! |
19thC spinning
top |
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20th C
lead soldier |
18th/19thC
Domino probably brought over by Napoleonic prisoners of war |
Figure
left Napoleon lead soldier, found on a Napoleonic prisoner of war site |
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Arkansas
six shooter !! (r) |
20thC Toy
lead pistol |
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WWII
lead soldier |
Lead
toy plane |
Early
lead toy soldier - look like US civil war ! |
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Large
early marble |
1950's
lead toy plane |
Toy spinning
top |
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Copper alloy dice - needs research to date it
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Medieval lead pyramid gaming pice |
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Medieval lead gaming piece
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19thC Lady milking lead figure |
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Georgian Miniture copper alloy domino 13.03mm L |
WWI lead toy soldier |
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Lead soldier |
Saxon lead gaming piece |
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