Question, whats the best thing or things you ever found without a detector?

[turtlefoot]

I found a WWII paratrooper's knife when I was in 7th grade.

A couple of years later, my best friend and I were walking the railroad tracks and found a stash of probably 500 porn magazines. These were magazines like no other, including local swinger magazines with addresses.

Some of the addresses were close to where we lived. We started looking for the people in the swingers magazine. We found a couple of the ladies and my buddy took the magazine up to one and asked for an autograph. She was not happy and cussed him up one side and down another.

Doug

 

[Ice Scratcher]

and asked for an autograph.

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[kingman mikey]

You did turn that into the police now didn't you ?

 

[kingman mikey]

I meant the $ 1500...

 

[Hook]

You did turn that into the police now didn't you ?

i once found a dry dog log with 3 quarters and a dime in it. posted it here, several years ago.

THAT find is the ONLY thing i would turn in to the money grubbing city officials, cops, whoever recieves the lost items that get turned in. anything else i find, either i pocket it for myself, or check want ads and craigslist for someone posting about losing said item.

the city gets enough of our money through taxes, fees added to utility bills, etc. they may have one hand in my pocket, but they aint getting both hands in there

 

[Donneybrook]

My brother found about 30¢ in a urninal when we were about 6 years old! He even split it with me!!

 

[Donneybrook]

My best find though was a 1827-1840 gold gilted button from a second Seminole war officer!

 

[Perquimans]

I found a WWII paratrooper's knife when I was in 7th grade.

A couple of years later, my best friend and I were walking the railroad tracks and found a stash of probably 500 porn magazines. These were magazines like no other, including local swinger magazines with addresses.

Some of the addresses were close to where we lived. We started looking for the people in the swingers magazine. We found a couple of the ladies and my buddy took the magazine up to one and asked for an autograph. She was not happy and cussed him up one side and down another.

Doug

Now that is freaking funny !!!!!

 

[ebone581]

Cinemax late at night...

Ahhhh the old skinemax. Helped me become the man (good or bad) I am today.
I found my four legged family at the local pound. They help me get by

 

[KarenESP]

Oh goody - I finally have a place to post my little story!! I haven't bought a real detector yet, I just have a 'kiddie detector' and am reading the forums still to figure out if I want to invest in a real one. The actual "digging part" bothers me because it's a lot harder than I thought it would be when I tried it... I am still here reading about what everyone else is finding every week.

BUT !!! I have boxes in my brother's basement due to a move long ago. They've been there for years now. I had about come to the point of just throwing them out without looking in them. If I look in them, then I feel guilty that I should stash the junk away somewhere - but if I don't look- then I haven't needed anything out of there in so long, I could probably just chuck them.

I had a painting in one of the boxes that I did when I was a teenager. I needed that so I went down and found it in one of the boxes. Then a little voice in my mind said - you should look all the way down to the bottom of that box.

I did and found a jewelry box that I suspected would be full of costume jewelry from when I was a child or in my early twenties. When I looked in there, I was stunned to also find

1. my gold ring with a ruby
2. my gold ring with an opal
3. my gold earrings with opals

These had been given to me by an ex so I had stopped wearing them long ago. I couldn't believe how close they had all come to ending up in the landfill . Thanks for reading

 

[KarenESP]

I found my wife of 21 years in the Penny Saver Ads !

Good one.

I also found a coin when I was ten from some other country on the beach. I gave it to another (child) friend of mine who was supposed to know about coins and was going to figure out what it was. Instead, he drilled a hole through the center of it and wore it as a necklace.

I found a hundred dollar bill blowing about on the boardwalk at the ocean in 2010. It was spent nearly as quickly as it was found.

I bike almost every day, and I am always scanning the sides of the road for bills or valuables 'cause you never know. I found a couple of tools that must have fallen off work vehicles.

I found a purse in the woods last year riding my bike but turned that over to the neighborhood crime watch guy. There was a license in it - apparently someone snatched some poor little old ladies purse and ditched it in the woods after removing all valuables.

When I was a teenager, I found my dad's gaudy, gold, precious stone encrusted ring in a manure pile, just a tiny piece of it was glinting out in the sunshine. He was mighty pleased to have that back. (We lived on a horsefarm.)

 

[Dirtfishn350]

I found these on the side of the road, going to work. Field dress kit for HUNTING. Figured I bow hunter lost it on his way out, case had some damage. Sold it to my boss for 50.00...
Retails for around 80.00 I believe?

EVERYBODYS HAPPY!

 

[KarenESP]

Every once and a while we will catch a show about Marilyn Monroe on the tube. I will look at my wife and say "My mom burned my copy of that issue. That was a lot of money she just threw away"

I can't stand nudie mags either but I really feel bad for you because in this case, that was a true piece of history. Sorry about that.

 

[Dark Chameleon]

I found a WWII paratrooper's knife when I was in 7th grade.

A couple of years later, my best friend and I were walking the railroad tracks and found a stash of probably 500 porn magazines. These were magazines like no other, including local swinger magazines with addresses.

Some of the addresses were close to where we lived. We started looking for the people in the swingers magazine. We found a couple of the ladies and my buddy took the magazine up to one and asked for an autograph. She was not happy and cussed him up one side and down another.

Doug

I was working on a foot n mouth farm when the big crud hit the fan in England and we were having to take down some steps cos removing the pointing alone would make the stairway collapse (some weird law that you could only fix the farm and not knock it down although it would cost twice the price of just flattening the place and rebuilding...something political).

So I had to take the steps out and then the wall down to then rebuild it..under the stair way there were dozens of dirty mags from the 50's...must have been classics...there was a bunch were turned into bedding for the local rat populous but some survived and so I checked ebay at the time and some were actually worth money but I didn't have the guts to sell them so threw them away(only worth a couple of dollars each but I didn't want to be trading in porn...lol).

 

[NoxDude]

Hello Guys,

I found 3 platinum rings. 1 plat/diamond ring appraised at $4300!!

ATPro Dude

 

[GADigger2]

in the early 70s and still a young kid I was walking down a dirt road that had just been scraped something shinny caught my eye I found a 1899 Morgan dollar.

 

[towzilla]

Found this 6.5 carat 14 k gold tennis bracelet. On the cat food shelf at Walmart. The clasp was broken. Some lady must have caught it on the shelf and didn't notice it fall off. Valued at $4,500

 

[KarenESP]

My boyfriend found a necklace with three real diamonds on it in a sink trap in an abandoned house.

My cousin found 500 bucks in the back of a dear head he bought at a flea market.

Friend of mine found 40 bucks in the pocket of a pair of pants she was trying on at a Goodwill second hand store.

 

[Sweeps]

Found in an old safe

In the 70's, I bought an old safe from a junk guy for 40 bucks, delivered. It had a locked compartment in it he'd never opened. He wanted to know if I wanted him to pry that open so I could use that space, and I said no.

A few years went by, I needed the space. I picked the lock on the compartment.

Inside? A very old Christmas card, some old eyeglasses and an eyeglass case that jingled.

Inside that? A large old 10 bill, some Indian head cents, half a dozen seated Liberty dimes, and seven gold pieces: 4 $5 gold pieces, and 3 $2 1/2 gold pieces.

Sorry, I don't remember the dates. Those coins got sold, I needed the cash.

Best find I ever had, hoping the MD will give up something more in the long run!!

Sweeps

 

[Dark Chameleon]

When I was cleaning dumpsters I heard a story locally about some guys on another transfer station who found 7000 pounds in a pair of willies that had paper jammed in the tops of them...some farmers stash thathis family didn't look in when he'd died and threw them out..thankfully the guys were honest and returned them...didn't get a tip or anything...some people don't deserve good luck...maybe the reason the farmer had his money in the willies was to hide it from his family...

But some of the things you find in dumpsters especially if they are from a house clearance or estate clearance can keep a stall going