Antedating of "Tooth Fairy"

[Anne Gilbert]

Rima:

> My memory is 25 cents (and when exactly did the cent sign disappear
> from keyboards?) - but I don't remember any differentiation between
> regular teeth or molars.

Well, by the time my daughter was of the proper age to start losing her
teeth amd learn about the Tooth Fairy, the price of a tooth had risen. And
maybe the molars was just a Pacific NW thing.  I don't know.  I never asked
anybody.
Anne G