Old House Yields a Mercury and some other stuff.

[unclejesse67]

This stuff was found inside without the use of a metal detector. During the remodel of my house, I disassembled a built-in medicine cabinet. There was a natural void underneath where stuff could fall through the cracks of the shelves. In amongst the 3" of dust bunnies, I found this stuff. The reciept is from Montgomery Wards. It has a date of Sept 24 but no year. The pin says: "Veterans World War 1 USA Auxilliary". The old pic is kinda cool. Wish it had some writing on the back to identify someone. I don't recognize the buildings in the background.

Anyway, thought I'd share.

Penny Dates: 1917, 1936s, 1941d, 1945d, 1953s, Dime: 1920.

I also found about $10 in clad in the ductwork that fell through the floor vents.

 

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[seger98]

All that fell into a gap from the medicine cabinet?? Imagine what you'd find in the duct work?

 

[Detectingfreak]

Sounds like you did pretty good! Nice merc!

 

[unclejesse67]

I guess I should explain the cabinet a little better. It's not one of those little wall mounted ones. It's more of a towel cabinet about 18"X 24" with four shelves. The bottom shelf sits about 3-4" off the floor and the void is underneath that. The shelves have some large gaps 1/4-3/8" in places to allow stuff to fall through. At some point, they put shelf paper which closed off the gaps.

 

[Natman]

That is VERY cool. I love the old photo. I found a small watch, a silver Rosie and a souvenir baseball coin in my 1950's ductwork.

Nat