Monday, April 20, 2009

Things I've found in and around my 100+ year old house

Most of these items were found during remodeling and landscaping. Ordered by value

1. 1856 Nickle found in the yard while building a retaining wall on my side of the Erie Canal bed.
2. 1907 Dime found when replacing a door to a second floor porch
3. Miscellaneous blue-glass bottles found while working on retaining wall.
4. Rolex silver baby spoon
5. Postcard from 1924 advertising a boxing match at the Rochester Athletic Club (found while I was still working at the unrelated Rochester Athletic Club)
6. Rusty old horseshoe
7. Bottle of Mercurochrome.
8. Old knitting needle

2 comments:

Darrick said...

You should post the values too!

Unknown said...

Also found a bunch of old baseball cards, an old Sears catalog (nearly completely destroyed by age), dozens of milk-bottle tabs, 6 turn of the century whiskey and rye bottles that were hidden behind an old wall.