Hunt for Treasure in your Walls!

[rustyrelic]

If you live in an old house built or remodeled around 1935-1949 then use your detector and check your walls for old beercans. Construction guys were famous beerdrinkers while on the job, so there can be treasure in your walls! With some rare beercans going for 15,000.00 on up, if the brand of beercan is rare, you could pay off your mortgage! E-mail me with any finds and I will let you know what they are worth and pay you for the cans.

 

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[bootybay]

I woulda never thought of this one...thank you...

 

[rustyrelic]

Rust is not a problem. We have the technology! I use Citric and Oxalic acid. Conetops are the early beercans that could be filled by beer bottling assembly lines, so many of the first beercans were packaged in conetops because the brewery didnt have to buy a entirely new production line to sell a new product. When you find a completly rusty beercan its called a "mystery can" Just soak for a day in a strong citric acid bath and the color lable will reappear after many years of rusty concealment. Its no guarantee, sometimes the sun has bleached the lable before it rusted. If the can rusted slowly over a period of years, without being in the direct sumlight, then it will still have plenty of paint between the microscopic rust cracks. Just experiment with old cans and you will get the hang of it.

 

[Montana Jim]

I just tore all my walls apart and found nuthing... who do I send the bill for repairs to?

 

[Monty]

No beer cans, but... From my former job I was around a lot of old house demolitions. The walls often contained newspapers and pictures. Newspapers were used for insulation, but I don't know why the pictures were there, but they were, often. Some of the old newspapers were from the nineteen teens ie: 1918, etc and had some very interesting articles. I especially enjoyed the old ads for miracle elixers and cures and the prices of things were unbelievable. Not worth much $$ but very entertaining reading. Monty

 

[Ricardo_NY1]

I just tore all my walls apart and found nuthing... who do I send the bill for repairs to?

Look at the bright side Jim, whoever worked on your house was sober! I think I'm going to mention this one to my uncle. He's in the house remodeling/construction trade.