Another "Hoard" Find

I remember remodeling my bathroom and tearing down a wall and seeing a 1962 newspaper stuffed in the wall. I kept the comics

Never found any money, but I lived in an old house, pre indoor plumbing, as the piping and electric wires all ran through conduits on the outside of the walls.




Anyways my roommate at the time, was trying to track down when the house was built, but the records were not on file with the city of Denver. We knew it was old as the quality of the build, the style, the pipes and added electrical work, etc. it also had an old coal chute into the basement by an old coal fire furnace (long out of use but still sitting there). One of our cats had kittens, and one of the kittens found a loose wall panel and somehow crawled up into the wall. When we finally were able to reach up into the space behind the plaster wall and grab the kitty to pull her out, she came slowly, claws digging into the interior wall, and when she was extracted she had pulled out some old newspaper that must have been used for insulation. It was then decided by my roommate, he would remove more plaster to get to the newspaper and see if there was a piece with the date on it. Ended up being part of a Rocky Mountain News dated in 1902. So the house was built at the turn of the century.

644 Galapago St. Denver, Colorado if anyone wants to google map it. It was a great old house we rented so cheap ($150/month in 1988) while we fixed it up for the owner (another friend) over a few years. Wasn't the best neighborhood then, but it's improved greatly. Lots of gang members and attempted break ins when ever we left the house. First thing we did after moving in was to install burglar bars on the windows. The week before we moved in, someone broke in and stole the beautiful marble mantle to the fireplace. Never had anyone get through our locks and other security measures after we took over.

We really looked around and even used a metal detector in the coal room (dirt floor). We did find cool old architectural stuff probably from the house at various times over the years, and a few old cast tin/lead toys, but never as much as a single cent. Surprising considering how big the house and how old too.

I figured up the hoard in just 90% @ 15 x face = $10,570.50 not a ton of money but a decent haul!

60 pounds. Something wrong with $10.570 I think.

Wish those where mine, wonder how much they will sell for

Funny to me that they think the hoard was stashed during the depression but there were 1964 Kennedy halves. Being in the junk/antique business I'd bet there was a bunch of vintage stuff in the trash piled up that could have sold for a decent chunk of change.

Surely someone went through all the boxes/junk that was inside. How many coins went to the dump ?

When I moved into my last house, the lady who lived there had passed away recently, she was 89. Her family had cleaned everything out but left misc boxes in the attic. Going through them, we found old books, newspapers, nothing great. Well there was a little cubbyhole thing hidden as you went up the fold down attic stairs. I never saw it before, and obviously neither did they. Well...In that hole were 2 old metal lockboxes... When I opened them, they were FULL of old weathered bank envelopes with string ties holding them shut. I opened the first one, and the first item on top of the stack was a $5 silver certificate! I actually screamed for joy thinking I hit the motherload, and consequently fell down the attic stairs fracturing my hand. Well.....turns out that the $5 was from a store she owned, it was on the wall because it had some signature.. The rest of the envelopes were all her tax receipts, tax papers, ect. which I returned to her family with the $5 bill. Talk about from going from HIGH to LOW in matter of minutes. Glad someone else had better luck!

I always enjoy hearing stories like this. But to be honest to many of these stories have been popping up lately and not sure whats really true or not. That being said I used to watch a show called If Walls Could Talk. That show was about people finding stuff in there houses and it was quite interesting. About 5 years ago I bought a Victorian house and did some remodeling in the attic. I found bunch of marbles, Newspapers from when A-Bomb was dropped, whiskey flask, and etc... Of all the stuff I found nothing was really that great but it was a lot of fun looking for stuff though.