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Carved From Nothing: The Hobo Nickel Carvers Who Turned a 5-Cent Coin Into American Folk Art
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Carved From Nothing: The Hobo Nickel Carvers Who Turned a 5-Cent Coin Into American Folk Art
A nail file. A pocketknife. A Buffalo nickel worth five cents. In the hands of Bertram Wiegand, George Washington Hughes, or Bo Hughes, that coin became something else entirely —... Read more
What Is a Hobo Nickel? The Hidden History Behind Coin Art Jewelry
What Is a Hobo Nickel? The Hidden History Behind Coin Art Jewelry
Before coin art became jewelry, it was survival. In the freight cars and Depression-era camps of early 20th-century America, itinerant workers carved skulls and portraits into Buffalo nickels with penknives... Read more
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