Time Capsule Opened, Something Interesting Inside.

Alas the video is not available in Canada. But I love this sort of thing! Though sometimes when you open up the time capsule you discovery something different:


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I am very skeptical of this news.
Check out this other video around 2:04 where Jim Axlerod says it was previously retrieved in 1855 and the contents, yes contents, were washed with acid.

How can it be a "first look" if it was opened before?


That's in the second video.

They plan on putting it back in the building, so the state of preservation (or use of acid) isn't really pertinent.

I thought it may have been reopened as the paper looked 19th century.

If it was 1795 you would see the long s on it. The silver plate had long s's on it. Also some of those coins looked perfectly round post 1831 and I am convinced there was a seated Liberty half in amongst them!

Still bloody interesting. Same thing happened here, in our 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, an 1867 statue toppled over and a time capsule was found from that year, but papers and coins from 1918 and 1933 were also found as the statue was moved in those years.