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Looks like a medieval bottle opener 😁😉

By the Thames, our member Mr Danelaw, Spend many hours whilst looking at the floor. And there to his surprise, upon the bank, he realised that he'd found an ankh. Perhaps it's from a ship that sank?

It looks like a Ankh the Egyptian key of life .

This is an inteersting point that my wife had the advantage of recently. Her dad took out an insurance policy on her as a baby in 1947 paying just 2d a week. This continued until around 1988, when payments ceased. When we went to cash it in some 30 years later, we thought it might be worth £50 or so. Imagine the surprise to find its value had risen over 60 years to about £1700 or so.

It's easy to reflect 50 years on if those pennies were put in a savings account say in the post office they might be worth around £2.40- £3.00 max , if withdrawn now. Interest was fairly high for the first twenty years or so (seventies and eighties) and gradually has decreased to nothing for the last five or so years. Interest rates are tipped to turn negative soon so the better alternative of gold silver art and antiques would be a better way to save