Chinese character side:
Chinese plane:
Old pestle from Chinese store.
Chinese musical instrument with snakeskin resonator, missing the strings.
Red box with lock:
Sandalwood fan with brass loop, bone combs and scissors:
There is a photograph in the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum on the page regarding the Chinese-American contribution to transcontinental railroad, showing a spittoon similar to this one prominently displayed. It is about half way down that page showing a Chinese merchant and his wife in their home in San Francisco. This particular spittoon was part of a large BC collection of artifacts traded for by Roy and myself in my early days of collecting. In the ensuing division of the items, I wound up with the spittoon. It originally came from Victoria, BC. It is a "Gold Coin" spittoon manufactured in Hong Kong-- a little over 9" tall and 9" across the top.
Brass trade token from Bakersfield, California. Line Wo Co. "GOOD FOR IN TRADE"-- showing both sides of the token. The token is listed in the 1976 book California Tokens by Charles V. Kappen and is assigned catalog number K-59.
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