Posted on 10/18/2022 6:59:47 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
My dad once told me those little tilted slats formed into the inside edge of the medicine cabinet were for discarding used razor blades. I have no idea if this is true, but that’s where he ditched his used blades. The wall must have been full of rusty blades.
Too bad it wasn’t 1877. Those are supposed to be worth a fortune due to the rarity. I think there were less than 1 million minted.
—”the horsehair plaster”
That stuff is like kryptonite!
As they plastered over the open lath, wet plaster splashes down on the bottom plate and piles up.
I’m not wild about wireless devices and Cat 6 is cheap/ (free in short leftover lengths).
Drilling from the basement up the stuff usually just moves upward and dulls the bit, carbide hole saws will NOT drill through it. With luck it can be pushed out of the way and a sleeve pushed in to hold it; sometimes. Diamond hole
saws just move it and rattle in the wall.
I HATE THAT STUFF!
Good question. It makes sense to keep quiet, and sell a few pieces to collectors if you like, without broadcasting that you have such a big stash of such coins.
And if you just want to cash out, sell pieces slowly over a period of time, so as not to attract attention.
My takeaway would be to only disclose half of the hoard - then add some recent coins.
When I was renovating 120-year-old house I happened to throw a book on the top shelf of an old closet and heard the sound of coins. I got up in the chair and pulled out a little box with a dozen Morgan dollars. It was an awesome find especially since we’re in Canada!
OK. Send me the $85,238 finder’s fee. I’ll have the treasure forwarded to your attention.
I knew a guy who bought an old house. When he removed the wall in a walk in closet, he found a printing press and engraved plates for counterfeiting $10 bills, the large size bills that were in use until about 1929.
My house was built in 1972. On the inside of the bathroom medicine cabinet is a slot for used razor blades.
About twenty five years back some people bought the house down the road at foreclosure auction. They tore down a wall to do some rehab and found drugs hidden in the wall behind the drywall. Called the police. It made the local news.
There was a rumor that they also found some money, but they did not report that to the police.
I think 85% of the land in New Mexico is owned by the federal government...very high percentage of Nevada too.
[snip] According to The Yorkshire Post, the coins have been linked to a Hull merchant family, the Maisters. The coins date from 1610 until 1727, from the reigns of King James I to King George I. The period covers the time of the marriage of Sarah Maister to Joseph Fernley. According to The Sun, Fernley died in 1725 and Maister remained in the area until her death in 1745. [/snip]
—”he found a printing press and engraved plates for counterfeiting $10 bills,”
Cool!
But I’d be worried, Eliot Ness or his offspring would shoot up the house.
While searching under the bed for his shoe, a husband found a small pouch containing 3 coins. When he asked his wife about them she became embarrassed and confessed to being unfaithful. She said every time she had an affair she would put a coin in the pouch. The husband thought about it and said “ 3 times over all these years is not so bad. I forgive you.” The wife became more embarrassed and said “Every time the pouch filled up, I emptied the pouch under the floor boards.”
The value of the find has gone up considerably in that time.
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