Lots of various food and merchandise stamps, postal and war bond stamps, many mercury dimes and other odd-ball coins, and one of my favorites: a very old 1940s looking pencil in a brass ammo shaped shell casing with a removable bullet to access the tip and John 3:16 printed on it. Lots and lots of gold stars, finished and unfinished letters, kid's home work, candles, hundreds of paper clips, hundreds of guitar picks, receipts of every kind, an uncashed check, other technician's tools, and an old upright that was so heavy the movers could hardly get it on a dolly. The reason? It was apparently once in a church and someone completely PACKED the bottom with old hymnals. They had apparently been there for decades and were badly disintegrating. Rob Goodale, RPT Las Vegas, NV -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Things found by myself in pianos include: > a shiny new 1918 U.S. Quarter > an unfired .357 magnum round > live mice, with nest > pre-Civil War dust, undisturbed > part of a mid-1860's German postcard, used to shim the pinblock > about an entire bushel of dead roaches, plus their "stuff" so encrusting the action that it was utterly unusable at that time ( I did manage to salvage it) > regurgitated cream soda float > various snake skins > blood splatters from wounded Union soldiers > USED condoms > a large number of opportunities to do heroic pitch raises > > > I'm still looking for the matching $140,000 in cash that was discovered inside an old upright by a tech up in Minnesota about 18 years ago..... > > Keeps one guessing, though!!! > > Robin Blankenship > Matoaca, Virginia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080228/6b329abc/attachment-0001.html
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