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Valued Member
 United States
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Lol yeah our laws are pretty strict here for sure! I'm yet to invest in a metal detector, the thought of walking around with one with all the nosy folks around here doesn't make me wanna go out and run to pick one up... We did a lot of remodeling a while back and oh how I wish I was into collecting then because even if we did find a penny we'd most likely just have seen it as just a penny and tossed it away :'( it's so funny because I love that movie back to the future and when Marty goes back in time to the diner and they have change on the counter my eyes light up like omg Marty take the coins lol
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06/30/2015 4:52 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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my house was built in the 20s too, the original owner owned like the entire block+ and it was an apple orchard and stuff...found a lot of horse shoes, old glass and wait for it..............no, not coins but old posters of all kinds as well as news papers from the war. cool stuff.
Feel free to call me Will.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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and the thing is all of this stuff was in the walls being used as insulation!
Feel free to call me Will.
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Valued Member
United States
53 Posts |
I recall finding some odd old paper in our walls as well it was in Latin I believe. We couldn't read it so in the trash it went.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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We lived in a Tudor built in the 20s, and used to find newspapers of the day stuffed into the walls.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I think it was common practice to use newspaper as insulation way back in the day. I remember when I was a kid my best friends dad remodeled their house, which was built back around the turn of the last century (1900ish) and it had only newspaper between the inner and outer walls. It wasn't an issue when energy was cheap, but those days are long gone.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have always heard the story of my grandfather redoing the roof on his house in the late 50's early 60's and the roof was insulated with "worthless" confederate notes and newspapers. My mother and aunts would play store with it until it was all destroyed and thrown away. I never really believed the amounts they were talking about thinking it was an exaggerated story from foggy memories. When he died we cleaned out the attic and there was still confederate notes stuffed in the walls. None of them were really worth saving as time, rodents, and bugs had taken their tole on them, but everyone has one note stashed away from that house.
My grandpa also told us a story about owing someone money ~100 if I remember correctly. He didn't have the money upfront so he put a dollar down and paid a dollar a week. I couldn't ever really comprehend a dollar having too much value and thought that was a story too. Well when we cleaned the attic, we found the hand written weekly receipts for a dollar.
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Valued Member
United States
53 Posts |
A dollar back then could get you a lot at the grocery store. Now you can barely get much with a 20
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Pillar of the Community
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Take some time & go to your local city hall & find out what was on/near your land way back when...
Seems my property was once a part of the local fairground, which means I could possibly have some great treasures buried below me!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've found perfectly preserved newspapers and magazines from the early 1900's under the linoleum of old homes. Also have hunted dozens of yards of homes dated from the mid-1800's to early 1960's and have dug hundreds of old coins and relics.
It's very exciting - borrow or even rent a detector and hit your yard -
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Valued Member
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I bought an old 1830's farm house about ten years ago, the only thing buried in our back yard were bodies. It seems it was the site of a double murder back in the thirties. The disgruntled farm hand beat the farmer and his wife with an oak log and took over the farm, told everyone in town they had moved back to Chicago. But really he buried them in the field. Here in Ma. , the Historical Society only gives you a hard time if the house has some historical significance.Other than being known as "The Murder Farm" around the area, it had no architectural or historical significance, so we could restore/remodel it any way we wanted. I didn't find anything of value remodeling, but whoever remodels the house in another hundred years, is going to find a treasure trove of mint state 20th and 21st century coins and magazines and newspapers.  |
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Valued Member
United States
53 Posts |
Wow that's one heck of a story! I don't know if I'd want to live there after finding bodies >.> I'm actually in New Bedford and the thought of knowing we were once the richest city sparks my interest for sure! Well that plus NB was discovered around the 1600's! I can only imagine what I'd find under this old home...
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Valued Member
United States
53 Posts |
I did a little digging in the cellar where there's dirt and I did come across an odd bone. I sent photos to a college that studies bones and they're clueless as to what it could be but they've suggested I try bringing it to the whaling museum here. I doubt it's a whale bone... I've tried searching every type of specimen possible and can't figure out what on earth it is. Needless to say I stopped digging. Kinda freaked me out :/
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Valued Member
United States
142 Posts |
My house was built in the VERY early 1900's. Tried to look around my yard. Found like an old, rusty piece of pipe. That was about it. Oh, except for an old, buried garden area. I plan on going out and looking again sometime soon. You never know.
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