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« Reply #40 on: December 04, 2010, 09:15:30 am »
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The story about the jars of coins in the rose garden was told to me by the man who found this cache. He has since passed away. I contacted his hunting partner who was there with him but only left a message. He may be weary to contact me for he dont know who I am. I will try again today. If I can win his trust I hope that he will tell me more about their adventures. I do know for sure that this is not the only cache Paul ever found.

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I said that his partner offered him $9000.00 for Pauls share of the cache. That was many years ago. That should give an idea how big it was.

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« Reply #41 on: December 04, 2010, 10:40:46 am »
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A cache buried in a rose garden is a common story. I have 3 or more leads in my files about them. One in Dickinson TX one in Pensacola FL and one in Hobbs NM 

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« Reply #42 on: December 04, 2010, 12:12:00 pm »
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Not all the treasure is in the ground.

From 2003 till 2007 I was a real estate agent.  (I only got out of it because I was injured and it landed me in a wheelchair.)  Anyway, in 2004 I was showing a client a large tract of land that he wanted to build cheap "Cookie Cutter" homes on.  (You know the ones.  Same floor plan, maybe flip it around, and change the color of the vinyl siding.) This was just at the start of the Foreclosure mess.

I was showing him this land in Union County, North Carolina that the bank had just taken over.  I don't even think they had named a real estate agent yet.  We walked through the house that was on it and it was falling apart.  He wanted to walk some of the property. I was dressed in a suit and dress shoes and didn't particularly want to walk through brush knee high.  So I told him to go ahead.  While I was waiting on him, I decided to look inside of an old shed.  It was probably 8' X 10'.  I opened the door and it literally fell of in my hand!  There were dirty children toys all over the floor of the shed, but also there were boxes of Milk Glass.  Vases, bowls, mugs, there were probably at least 20-40 pieces.  I picked up one vases and there was no cracks or chips.  The boxes were dirty and looked like they had been there a while.  Also in the shed was old oil cans and a mower that you wrapped the rope around the top and pulled.  (No recoil starter, my Grandparents had one, so I knew it was old.)    I did take 2 of the milk glass vases and put in my car.  (I figured it would look bad if I was loading up the entire shed and my client returned.)  I always wanted to go back, but never found the time.   (And on top of that, he never bought anything from me.  Maybe it was Karma for taking the 2 vases?) 

The agent who represented bank foreclosures in our company had so much items he found, that he set his son up in business as "reclamation specialists."  (Banks just want the home cleaned out prior to putting them on the market.  They don't care how or by whom.)  His son would haul out lots antique furniture, workout equipment, musical equipment and of course, just junk.  Most of the good stuff, his son would turn over to consignment shops in Charlotte.

My point is, there is a lot of treasure to be had in old homes, sheds and barns.  (Make sure no one lives there or you might get shot or jail!)

During the Civil War, err "The War of Northern Aggression" as it's known here in the South.  It was common practice to bury all the families prized possesions for fear it would fall into the "Yankees" hands.  I'm sure that other 1000's of people have had the same idea I have had and probably have even done it.  I've always wanted to use my metal detector around these old properties.  (Actually, this practice  even dated back to the Revolutionary War times.)




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« Reply #43 on: December 04, 2010, 02:26:06 pm »
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Good story. Sure treasure can be found everywhere,

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« Reply #44 on: December 05, 2010, 08:12:58 am »
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Thanks for the tips I will use them wisely  Clapp

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« Reply #45 on: December 27, 2010, 05:37:12 am »
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Cache hunters:
    Having found a number of caches in my long career, I have a couple of suggestions. Dont forget to look BEHIND the potato bin. Some grandmas would to hide their "butter and egg" money there. I once found a "cut plug" box that held an old wax paper bread wrapper that had a single $20, a $10, a $5 and five $ 1's, all series 1923. Another, (which I showed one of my grandsons just last week) contained a little single shot pistol and a lot of coins, including large pennies, 2 cent pieces, three cent pieces, a couple half dimes and a flying eagle cent, among the V nickles, shield nickles and other coins. Another cache was found in the garden of a lady who's family had torn the house up, as well as the flower beds but had overlooked the garden where she had spent many hours but was now overgrown. She had hid her $18,000 in a pressure cooker.
    Also don't overlook any birdhouses, they may be false or have false bottoms.
    My last big cache was over 80 pounds of silver, (mostly dollars and halves) that  was a recent cache hidden in the back yard in Memorial area of Houston, my oldest son was running the backhoe/trencher when we hit it. You should have seen the mad scramble when coins started turning up.   
    Another caution: I found a casino type box hidden in the air vent in an old casino in Houston. You should have seen my heart jump when I opened it and found it full of cash, 1930's series. I didn't need the cash at the time, so hid the cache out at our farm. A couple years later we suffered a house fire and needed the money so I got it out, only to notice that the old bills ALL had the same serial number. I reasoned that where else could a famous gangster pass counterfit money easier than a casino? I ended up burning the entire bunch of bills. After the entire place was bulldozed down, several years later,  my twins and I went back for a last turn with detectors and one twin found a sawed off shotgun in the ground. 
    Good luck. 
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« Reply #46 on: December 27, 2010, 08:26:32 am »
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that was all very intersting info. now does any1 know if a wall camera can be made out of an old cell phone camers? just extend the wires wouldnt u?>

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« Reply #47 on: December 27, 2010, 08:47:30 am »
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Thanks everyone for the tips , i copied them into a word file to save on my HD for future reference.



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now does any1 know if a wall camera can be made out of an old cell phone camers? just extend the wires wouldnt u?

It's very complicated to do that. There are other options.

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One of my morbid fascinations are grave yards.  Charlotte has an old slave gave yard that for years was over run with seeds.  Finally about 7-8 years ago, the city decided to clean it up and "integrate" it into the City Cemetary.  (Which it backed up to anyway.)  It's fascinating because the markers (which is rare in itself) will read, "Here lies Robert, faithfuil slave of Master Paul" and usually a date when he died.  (They normally didn't keep birth records.) 

I don't know what Charlotte's regulation regarding metal detecting in a grave yard is, but I always wanted to see if there was anything around some of these old graves.  Also, this is more prevelent in the East Coast then the West Cost, I would think.  Old farms had their own grave sites.  (Think Forest Gump.)  You would have to get permission from the property owner, but I always wanted to try sweeping around those.  (Not that I want to disturb the departed.)  Just to see if things were left there.



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