Opinions Please

[sodaman]

I think most of us have made that kind of discoveries, I've had a few, a Jacobs 35 with the coin chute jammed with buffalo nickels, 37 silver dimes in the insulation of a Vendo 83, etc.  but those kind of things you have no way of knowing who put them in there, was it the one you bought it from or the person that sold it to him?  It is like most have said here, whatever makes you feel ok.

[Ginger Prince]

Over here in England  there was a recent media story over

an auction item sold over three years ago. Only recently

the purchaser opened a smaller box that was in the larger

trunk. The trunk belonged to a relative of Agatha Christie

the famous crime writer and had been catalogued as such

in the auction where it had sold for a few hundred pounds.

Inside the smaller box they found jewellery and gold coins

valued at over £100,000  as there was  provenance to the

Christie family.

Obviously, the person who had bought the trunk was delighted

and the story hit the national media. However, auction company

that originally catalogued the trunk were seeking to place claim

on these newly found items, as these items were,

 "not catalogued within the original lot item description" so the buyer

  never purchased these items so they belong to the auction house

  or the original owner who placed them with the auctioneer in the

  first place.


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GP

[Pat Pixley]

GP  in that case I would say let take it to court and then lets see who it belongs to.
The Auction House  did not do there job of checking every thing out first hand and the original
owner is also to blame  for not taking the time to check things out before turning it over to the auction house
both did a crappy job, They both missed it and the auction house caught H377 for not checking it out so they have to make it right for the customer (GO get those coins) what a bunch of dirt bags

  And What Eric was saying about the old people I totally agree with the A+ plus to your buddy .

[Creighton]

I would try and contact the owner and see if they received those items from the estate broker. If not that is theft. From who would be a question.
Side note: Switch blades are legal in WA. State. They can be in a home assembled but to carry or transport in a car they must be dissassembled.
Creighton

[Eric]

Update!...Sorry!.... I was wrong on the amount in the coffe can... it was $5,000.00 not $15,000.00
still alot of coffee!.. So check the kitchen drawers when looking for a house!

[mznb1u]

Years ago, a friend of mine bought an older home in the Chicago area.  He was remodeling the bathroom and removing the plaster so he could replace it with greenboard.  When he opened the wall above the window about $3,200 dropped out of the wall.  Not a fortune but enough to cover the cost of the remodel at the time.

  Tim

[Pat Pixley]

Update!...Sorry!.... I was wrong on the amount in the coffe can... it was $5,000.00 not $15,000.00
still alot of coffee!.. So check the kitchen drawers when looking for a house!

OH THAT"S IT!!!!  Then he should have keep it     Just joking    He still did the right thing
 .

[bigred]

i feel if you payed for it and took possession of it what ever was
in it was yours and yours alone that's how i feel any how
like my Pepsi machine i got it home and opened it and found
like 6$ n quarters and .30 in dimes well the man i got it from had
already said they had had it opened several times trying to figure
out why it wouldn't vend right so i figure they had to know it was
there so all in all it only cost me 93.70 for it 

[sodaworks]

If I find gold coins in a machine that I buy. I'm not telling the media. LOL T

[halehouse]

I have a story that sort of relates, but instead of finding something it is a story about losing something we didn't know we had.

I grew up in Ohio in a house that was built around 1940. My parents bought it in 1967. The house had a large stone fireplace in the living room that was made out of stone from an old schoolhouse. Next to that was a built-in bookcase. One summer in the early 80's we went on vacation. Upon returning home we found the inside basement door (the one that lead to the basement from the kitchen) kicked in and a "junk drawer" open in the kitchen. The basement door had a small latch on it that we always locked for whatever reason. We quickly figured out that someone had broken the window to the outside basement door to gain entry to the basement and came up the stairs from the inside. When they couldn't open to door at the top of the stairs they forced it open and broke the latch. They then took a hammer and screwdriver from the door and made their way to the bookcase in the living room. It was here that we found the hammer and screwdriver laying on the floor and a section of the bottom panel pried off of the bookcase. Under the bookcase, behind where the panel was, there was an accumulation of dust in all but one space about the size of a shoebox. Something had been put there some time prior to my parents purchasing the home in 1967 and this person knew about it and came back to get it. Whatever it was sat behind that panel for many years without us knowing it and was important enough to break in and come back to get it. They didn't bother anything else in the house. I REALLY wish I knew what it was.