Tim

No tiddlywinks in excavations but the plastic pastel blue and red ones seem 
to form one of the major classes of items I see when I'm crawling around 
below floors of extant houses.  They were the perfect function and form for 
locating and sliding down any cracks in the house.

While on obscure uses of crown bottle caps, is there a non-Australian 
version of the lagerphone?  This is a stick [broomhandle size] covered with 
nailed on crown caps and bounced up and down for a particularly gormless 
tinkling sound that is much loved by bush bands.  It is as stereotypical as 
a hat with corks on it [is there no end to Australians' cleverness with 
bottle closures!].  Do lagerphones exist in other countries with other 
names?

Denis

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From: "Tim Thompson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: Crown Caps


> Ron,
>
> seems to me Little Rascals films are the equivalent of Noel Hume 
> consulting Dutch genre paintings. Marbles were dying out in North Florida 
> in the late fifties, and I don't remember flicking bottle caps, but it 
> does  sound a bit like Tiddley Winks, the passion of prawns a couple of 
> generations previously. Anybody ever found Tiddley Winks in an excavation?
>
> Tim T.
> reluctant gamester
>
>