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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: Oceans64 on October 16, 2010, 09:24:05 am
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Just for fun… Would love to know what you have found in your older home. I found these buried in a wall in my c1910 home while replacing some wiring. I know they aren’t worth anything but I think they are cool. Also found a mummified rat (ugh). He got thrown out – unceremoniously I might add!!
Two I found while digging down about 2 feet to level an area for a deck. One of those is marked 3-in one-oil (precursor to WD-40). I just read this AM that it dates to about 1895!! Also found an old Mason Jar but it’s currently full of applesauce :) btw… applesauce does not look good in a blue jar.
Anyone found any treasures in their walls?
Cantrell Cochrane bottle – Think it was for Ginger Ale (heavy)
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Other Glass
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Hi Oceans,
When I moved in and started to return the garden to a cottage garden, I found quite a few bottles, ginger beer, beer and so on, and some still in very nice condition. Probably the same as over there, before they had refuse collections everything got either burned or buried!! We've amassed quite a collection over the years. The strangest, and funniest, was when I decided to rip up and replace the floorboards in an upstairs room. After lifting the tatty carpet by the chimney breast I saw what I took to be a large asbestos section recessed into the floor where the open fire would once have been. You can imagine that I felt a little panic overcome me. However, after donning more protective clothing than a Chernobyl worker, and pasting plastic sheets over the offending 'asbestos' I cut the boards around it and lifted the whole thing out. The first indication that it perhaps wasn't asbestos was the sheer weight. It turned out to be a large slab of stone, almost resembling a headstone, with Wm. Stone and the name of the village engraved on it. A bit of research showed that three Stone brothers, one called William, lived in the village back in the 1850's roughly about the time when that part of the building was added. Absolutely no monetary value to the thing but it was a sort of link to the past. I perhaps should have replaced it when I put down the new boards, but it has found a nice home in the garden.
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VERY cool finds both of you! Actually I think the garden is the perfect place for such a stone to be appreciated and enjoyed. You gave it a second life!
My house is a 1935 mountain cottage that was expanded in the 1950's. Under the house we found a set of British motorcycle wrenches and a book from the early 1900's called "What Every Boy Should Know About Electricity". This book tells about the hottest technology of the day- like enormous wooden-frame X-ray machines and lightbulbs!
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markok54 post a pic of your stone! How adventurous.
I absolutely love the program "If Walls Could Talk" where people have bought older homes (some abandoned, some not) and find so many secrets to the past owners!!!!!! Thrill!!!!!!
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Hi KC
Took a photo as I put the hens to bed for the night. It's had a couple of planters on it (its new lease of life!), hence the moss-free areas :)
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VERY cool finds both of you! Actually I think the garden is the perfect place for such a stone to be appreciated and enjoyed. You gave it a second life!
My house is a 1935 mountain cottage that was expanded in the 1950's. Under the house we found a set of British motorcycle wrenches and a book from the early 1900's called "What Every Boy Should Know About Electricity". This book tells about the hottest technology of the day- like enormous wooden-frame X-ray machines and lightbulbs!
Lightbulbs!!! Probably seen as the Devil's invention back then!! I suppose it would have made more sense had the book been a BSA workshop manual .. That's the beauty of these eclectic finds :)
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Mario... Very COOL stone!!!
LOL Tales... I probably could have used a book like that when I was tring to figure out my wiring.
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GREAT stone Mariok54!
This book is pretty scary. Wonder how many boys got zapped trying their hand at becoming inventors?!
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Hi,
As promised here are some of the bottles and stoppers excavated from the garden, plus a couple of marbles that probably came from Codd-neck bottles, unfortunately none of those seem to have survived. What is interesting is that two of them come from breweries in East Anglia, some 80 odd miles away, which would have been some distance in those days.
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Nice stone! Do you have it displayed?
Wow....to dream of finds...........
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Very cool!! ;D
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Nice stone! Do you have it displayed?
Wow....to dream of finds...........
Hi KC, I built an arch with a sort of 'kissing gate' going down the garden, and it rests in there with a couple of planters on it.
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VERY cool! ;D
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Nice way to commemorate!!!!!
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fun, Haven't found anything in the walls of my 1850 farmhouse, but did find a bottle dump under the floor of the attached shed. Nice clay jar, ink well and alot of nice bottles.
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Back in the late 80's I had a roommate who was a home builder and we shared a house that had been built in the 1960s. One evening hes backing a trailer into the garage to unload some sheetrock and he manages to knock a hole in the sheetrock wall of the garage. Inside the wall is a tombstone for a baby that was born and died the same day in 1890. Kind of spooky, I tried for years to see if there was a local cemetary missing a stone but no luck, so we gave it a home in my parents garden.
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Tex, that is (kinda) neat... Many times graves were moved or the stones replaced with another type or a joint stone (like a sibling died later and was buried in the same place. Did the baby have a name? One really cool site is findagrave.com which is growing by leaps and bounds. There are many, many, many cemeteries that have been inventoried and pics taken and more added daily. If this was from the 1890's that stone could have come from anywhere.
Your parents garden is a great spot...
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Oceans....I found out about this site AFTER I walked/creeped/crawled through overgrown, moss laden cemetaries this summer. Majority of the information/graves were on sites. Not all sites are easy to find.....but it is a really neat program!
If you could remember the name of the baby....it would be to try and find!
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Weve been working that angle for a couple of years, my annual Christmas present to my mother is a subscription to Ancestry.com and shes gotten very good at tracking things down, last name was Norman, but no luck so far. My great grandfathers grave is in Marshall Texas and its got C.S.A. engraved on the bottom edge, I know its just a matter of time before someone steals or destroys it.
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Wow. What are the odds that the one wall you knock into had a gravestone in it? Probably a teenage prank they regretted later, and had no way to make amends so they hid the evidence. That's great that you keep looking for the grave. Very cool of you to continue the search. I'm sure this baby's parent's appreciate the effort. :)
The whole concept of decimating graves is such an emotional one. I got a big dose of it recently during the research on my 3x great-grandfather who was killed on the steamer Jenny Lind. Turns out the graveyard he was first buried in in San Francisco was sandy, with shallow graves. People used to go in and harvest the soil around the bones to make soap. Freakin' horrible. I can totally relate to how Native American's feel when the graves of their ancestors are disturbed.
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texasbadger, I hope noone steals it. What a honorable mention on the tombstone!!