Found Any Old Signs, Tins, Packets Or Bottles Lately?

rino1494

What website ??

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i found a bunch of old medicine bottles when digging out a crawl space this summer.. all from around 1900-1920 all in mint condition but most got smashed when sitting around the job site for too long ;-)

mdshunk

I'll continue to feel that any crap I find on a jobsite doesn't belong to me, unless I offer to purchase it from the property owner. Even if I'm the one in the crawl space or attic that discovered it, and I'm sure that no one's laid eyes on it in a hundred years, it's still not mine.

Wolf

Except if you are doing demolition of the building, then you own anything that is on the site, anything left inside the building, unless your contract specifies otherwise.

Sometimes it pays to salvage stuff, otherwise we just let it go to the dump. Crush it up and off it goes.

Lots of old bottles around here. What I noticed is that people sneak onto the jobsite at night and dig up old bottles. Sometimes even pay off night watchman to do that.

Lots of old advertising signs painted onto buildings. They become exposed when doing the demo, but how you gonna save that?

Wolf

Were those medicine bottles in decent shape when you found them? Too bad they all got destroyed--they probably were valuable. Here the workers snatch them up as fast as they get dug up. Sometimes the workers even sell them right off the jobsite to passersby. This is in San Francisco, where we are constantly digging up old bottles from the gold rush era that were used as landfill in the downtown area. Even dug up part of an old ship one time. Also, people sneak onto the jobsite at night to dig up old bottles. Hard to control that, even with night watchman.

rino1494

Actually, I did a addition on a 40 yr old house last week and I found a Dr. Pepper bottle.

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I found a bunch of diapers and trash stuffed through the floor into the crawl space on the last house I bought. Over the years I found a gold ring in a p-trap, some early 1900's soda signs, and a "land sales map" form 1888 when you could buy a section of land in Colorado for 3 bucks an acre. I shoulda, woulda, coulda bought.

I'm a collector so I don't sell anything.

The gold ring I was certain belonged to the original owner of the house who lived there from 1954 to 1994. I put it in a box and put it inside a wall close to where I found it. Some things just belong where they belong.