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Not sure why, it was a couple bucks. I think I just liked the 1970s pattern, and it's still in good enough shape to use for it's intended purpose.

Not sure why, it was a couple bucks. I think I just liked the 1970s pattern, and it's still in good enough shape to use for it's intended purpose.

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For what they are - cheap ceramic hand painted shakers. Maybe they are just pre-war or post-war Japanese imports, IDK. No lettering on them anywhere.

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Japanese stuff probably would have had JAPAN printed on the bottom.

They're probably just from one of the hundreds of ceramics factories that used to litter the Ohio valley.

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That could very well be the case. We made everything back then.

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I was remarking on that yesterday at the antiques show. A vendor had a bunch of cast iron piggy banks that had some metalworks company name on them, probably from the 30s. By the number of them, it was apparent that the company just made them to give away as promos.

We made so much stuff and was so profitable at it, that companies just made useful stuff and gave it away.