It's cool to see old dates and tuners who used to sign the plate in old uprights.  The best one I saw was an old upright painted white and inside on the green plate was a techs name and dated 1909, Nome Alaska!  It either had to be in a bar or missionary.  What else could have been there in those days? pw <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%><pianolady50@peoplepc.com> Sent by: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org 02/28/2008 03:47 PM <table border> <tr valign=top> <td bgcolor=white> <div align=center>Please respond to Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org></div></table> <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td>"Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td>Re: Treasures in pianos</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> Various coins, of course, including a 1913, 10 shilling, silver coin from India.   Dog food, mice nests, little skeletons, and palmetto bug carasses and the like in keybeds.   A miniature ceramic skunk.   A business card with a phone number: 451-L   A tiny thank you note from one neighbor to another, from April 1944 with a 'Win the War' .03 Victory stamp.  It was sent from 168 Peachtree Circle to 1382 Peachtree Street, same city.   In a summer home, half the fringe from the oriental carpet made a nice nest among the tracker bar tubing in an upright player.   One of the best finds was starting a rebuild on a Cornish reed organ on April 11, 1996 and inside finding the hand written date from a previous service, April 11, 1906!   Debbie Legg