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So doing some cleaning this last weekend I found an old guide to Westminster Abbey stuck in with a bunch of books in the back room, with a publishing date of 1830. My maternal grandmother had it and I got it when she passed and had completely forgotten about it.

So, what interesting or unusual things have you found that you go or inherited and completely forgotten about till rediscovered years later??
 
Coincidence: just yesterday I opened an old book and found a prescription slip from a pharmacy in upstate New York. By the street address and phone number, probably in the 1930s. The doctor's name is Lowenthal - and the prescription directions are written in German.
 
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I was doing some cleaning in my sons room the other day. I came across this watch we bought him when he was a kid. I believe itā€™s from 1997.
 

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My maternal grandmother kept 100s of photos, not to mention old books and other keepsakes. Got a few photos of a couple taken when they were in their 50s, in the early 1850s. Kinda neat to know they were born when Washington was President in the mid 1790s.
 
I'm a terrible pack rat, so my full answer would crash this server. I re-find things almost daily.

But the happiest recent find wasn't really a re-find, so much as me finding out that a beloved piece of my great-grandmother's jewelry wasn't stolen when my parents' house was burglarized in the 80s. To my surprise, I saw it at my niece's wedding last weekend, clipped in her hair!

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Just came across this 8-transistor radio in a box in my attic. Put batteries in it and itā€™s playing like itā€™s the 1970ā€™s.
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I've got 3 1960s transistor radios round here that belonged to my dad when I was a kid.
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I found another one in the same box. Wonder what a kid today would say if I showed it to him?
 
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They'd figure it was broken since a swipe of the finger didn't do anything....
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And, it has a telescoping antennaā€¦. They would have no idea what it's for.
 
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I'm a terrible pack rat, so my full answer would crash this server. I re-find things almost daily.

But the happiest recent find wasn't really a re-find, so much as me finding out that a beloved piece of my great-grandmother's jewelry wasn't stolen when my parents' house was burglarized in the 80s. To my surprise, I saw it at my niece's wedding last weekend, clipped in her hair!

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Good work! now you know who burglarized your parents house in the 80's :LOL::LOL::LOL:
 
1959 Christmas gift was a Hitachi radio the size of a pack of cigarettes. AM only, but it brought the world into the palm of my hand. Still have it, it works. Part of our "bug-out bag" as the last resort means of learning what's left. šŸ˜‰
 
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