Small Cache??

[Swingit]

I was going through my junk from my uncle's house and saw this little rusty conainter. It is rusted tight I shook it and it rattled what do you think is in it??

 

[dugupfinds]

Open it & find out.

 

[SilverFox167]

Maybe his marbles...
Has he been missing them?
Ok, alright already are you ging to share with us or not?
We want to see. :P

 

[oddcoins]

Seriously man ~ have you not opened it yet?! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! OPEN IT ALREADY!!! I'm going crazy just thinking about what might be in there!

 

[ivan salis]

3 merc dimes 1916 d's you wish!!!

 

[Yarrum]

It's gotta be a 1792 half disme ! ! !
We're all waiting on the edge of our seats................

 

[Green1]

mouse turds.....

 

[jeric2]

A thing-a-ma-bob for a ducks a$&%!

 

[N.J.THer]

I agree with Copperhead...Cotter Pins.

 

[wildrider]

RUST

 

[Dunky]

Teeth (like for the tooth fairy)

 

[Recruiter]

1936 wheat penny.

 

[Swingit]

Re: Small Cache?? Opened!!

Sorry guys something came up and I had to leave. I am back and its open!! Some kinda tape or something. bummer maby next time it will be that Gold coin. HH

 

[BioProfessor]

Good job. You need to help the guy with the safe.

Daryl

 

[BIG61AL]

hmmmmmmm ..... bummer........there's alway another treasure waiting to be found.

 

[TreasureTales]

How many times have we seen somebody cut open a container just to find junk in it? Please, next time don't destroy the can, just enjoy the mystery.

 

[Rob in KS]

I was showing my wife all the responses to this thread.
She said it looks like a sewing tape measure.

 

[BioProfessor]

I am not sure that everybody who destroys a container by opening it means to do it. If they are like me, they start out trying to carefully loosen the top, door, or whatever. You make a little progress and then something slips or whatever and the metal rips. You try to keep going and stay away from the ripped area and then it rips or breaks in another place. After a few of these, you say "What the heck it's ruined now anyway." and you just "get the sucker open." Sort of human nature to want to know what is inside and if you try to open it without damaging it and it goes bad, you just go for it.

My experience with old rusty things anyway.

Daryl

 

[TreasureTales]

I am not sure that everybody who destroys a container by opening it means to do it. If they are like me, they start out trying to carefully loosen the top, door, or whatever. You make a little progress and then something slips or whatever and the metal rips. You try to keep going and stay away from the ripped area and then it rips or breaks in another place. After a few of these, you say "What the heck it's ruined now anyway." and you just "get the sucker open." Sort of human nature to want to know what is inside and if you try to open it without damaging it and it goes bad, you just go for it.

My experience with old rusty things anyway.

Daryl

LOL, yes I, too, understand the desire to look inside a rusty container. However, 99% of the time it's something like this thing - junk. On the rare occasion it's something good, you can usually tell by the sound it makes when it rattles around in the can. A little mystery is fun. I know one guy who has a Prince Albert can with a folded piece of brittle and yellowed paper inside. He refuses to remove the paper and flatten it out to read - he thinks the mystery is worth much more than the actual paper is worth. He's probably correct - it's probably a miner's claim marker from the 1930's and not worth much due to the faded ink that is probably on it. "Ah, sweet mystery of life....."

 

[pcolaboy]

BABY TEETH -- seriously

 

[BioProfessor]

Same thing with metal detecting. Most of the hits we get are junk (I've been scolded and told we don't find junk we find Junque.). Maybe not 99% but it's probably close depending on your definition of Junque. It may even be higher if your standard of "good stuff" is gold, silver, old coins, etc. Anyway, walking away from a good signal and not finding out what it was is akin to having an unopened container with something inside and we don't know what it is. We just "HAVE TO KNOW." We may even go back to a place we got a "sorta" good signal after we think about it for awhile and then dig it. Maybe that is one of the personality traits that attracts us to metal detecting in the first place. People not infected with "Detecting fever" may be able to keep a container without knowing what's inside it or not unfolding an old document to see what it is, but those who have the bug, might not be able to resist.

Just the way I see it.

Daryl