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   Guest_ | Jul 22, 1999 10:18am | #8

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   FHB recently touched on this but didn't go in depth.
   i've found old bottles, sheathing signed/ dated 1860, a petrified lunch on a nantucket reno.i make it a practise to leave a can of beer & a newspaper in any enclosure for the future reno.

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   Guest_ | Jul 13, 1999 06:44am | #1

   *Chip,I've found lots of interesting old stuff. Girlie mags from the fifties hidden between attic joists, beer bottles (was that you),an old hammer with a cracked handle under a tub (you think he was trying to lever the thing?), lotsa stuff, but the one thing that stands out was the cookie tin I found in the eaves of an old house...dusted off the insulation...shook it and heard a pleasing tinkling sound...smiled as visions of Gold coins danced in my head, opened it up and found it full of........old shotgun shells. Remembered I had just rattled it and very gently walked it down the ladder and gave it a good soak with the hose.Oh well maybe the next one will have great grandpa's hidden fortune.Richard Max

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   Guest_ | Jul 13, 1999 06:48am | #2

   * Chip,

   I'm in the middle of a renovation right now, and like I said the last time this question came up, all I find is dirt, lots of it!!

   Joseph Fusco View Image

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   Guest_ | Jul 13, 1999 07:20am | #3

   *I found a 1919 penny that is worth a dime according to the book in the library.Rich Beckman

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   Guest_ | Jul 13, 1999 07:35am | #4

   *Joe, sorry to hear about the dirt, again, we're in the middle of one too.Black walnuts, thousands of them and dairy magazines from 1929.Vince

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   Guest_ | Jul 13, 1999 08:02am | #5

   *Chip,I've found signatures from carpenters back in the twenties on studs and stair stringers. Most of the houses we work on were built around that time. Never found anything of value. Old newspaper is pretty common.I've heard a lot of tall tales. I am in Texas. The land of the tall tale. I don't believe too many of them.Found a lot of rodent skeletons. Does that count as treasure? No, I didn't think so either.I always leave something in the wall for the next guy.Still looking for that pot of gold,Ed. Williams

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   Guest_ | Jul 13, 1999 03:49pm | #6

   *Heard about a black powder, flint lock pistol found in the walls of a 17th century New England house. Hidden from the red coats and forgotten. Not a tall tale, I new the gunsmith who restored it for the lucky finder.

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   HOT_DOG_25 | Jul 21, 1999 07:14am | #7

   *i worked for a guy who bought a house formerly owned by some allegedly famous hippie drug dealer from the sixties. Thusly, bags of grass were in the walls. Stranger still in the floorboards, were baby shoes hob-nailed little leather numbers from the twenties(old house). The rats were hungry? I'll never know....

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   Guest_ | Jul 22, 1999 10:18am | #9

   *60's nudie mags that never quite make it into the dumpster, WWII newspaper under the linoleum, piano catalogs from the early teens, etc.Supposedly, in the south folks would stuff old confederate $$ and firearms up the (whats lovingly referred in this neighborhood as)b the chimbley to hide them from Sherman and the like. Can't confirm any of this.I was working on a '20's soffit with a guy once. He was prying a section off from the porch roof with a wrecking bar and 'bing!' out falls a bevel gauge complete with rosewood handle and all brass fittings. He took it home and polished it for about three days and then it took up premier residencey in his Occidental tool belt. Shined like new till the day he, myself and two other guys got laid off from b thatparticular construction agency.