Claire

Any good pair of scissor blades, if the handles break there should be a tang to which a wood handle can be fitted. Good quality boar bristle hair brushes, toenail clippers, metal cross-grained nail files, hand mirrors, fine point tweezers, metal picks for tooth-tartar removal, scapels, swedish peelers, meat thermometers, strings and strings filled with buttons like so much wampum money, leather-working tools and scrapers, meat tenderizer hammers, ice picks, safety pins, actual silver silverware, stainless steel tableware, enameled metal cookware and buckets, paper clips, combination padlocks, metal chain, nylon rope and carabiners, block and tackle wheels, S-hooks, nails, asphalt shingles, tarpaper, sandpaper, glues, compasses, magnets, coated copper wire, solder, lead foil, aluminum foil, ace bandages, knitting needles with a loop, galvanized metal spouts for tapping maple and birch trees with a place to hang a bucket built-in, string, cord, and twine of many kinds, pantyhose (many uses besides decorating legs), bright colorful beads, tuned musical chimes, prisms and crystals, shrill safety whistles, dog whistles, swiss army knives, magnesium bars for quick fire starting, carbon steel knives with their own whetstones, pretty printed paper fans in metal cases, threaded screw-in cup hooks and eyes, brassiere hooks and eyes, brass brads for paper fastening, magnifying glasses, Hohner harmonicas, sheet music, wax crayons, water color paint sets for kids or adults, packets of dyes, sterile bandaids, phonograph needles, syringes, clothespins, other things with steel springs or leaf springs, blocks of reuseable blue ice, caster wheels, flashlight bulbs...well, you see more how my mind works than what might be at all feasible as a store of value.