As one online user says, it was popular “back when a dollar was a dollar and you could buy some bread with a nickel.”
That takes us way back to February 1915, when a story in the New York Times read: “5 cent loaf likely to go to 6 cents” – coinage this item had space enough to carry.
Not for monacles
This antique metal case, with two round slots, is rich in history and more valuable today than the content it held almost 100 years ago.