Ever found anything interesting/valuable?
 

I was doing some cash-in-hand gardening during the school summer holidays way back when at an old Rectory that an ageing chap had been living in alone since the '50s. One day I was weeding the vegetable patch when something caught my eye. I looked down and instead of the usual broken porcelain, I had actually found a 5-6mm diameter cut diamond!

I had been feeling a bit hard-done-by that week as the old duffer had been seriously underpaying me for the hours I had toiled, so I thought "stuff him" and pocketed it without saying anything.

When I got home I showed my parents and got my Dad to take it to a jewellers in Hatton Garden, London to see how many thousands it must be worth.

Not so. They soon confirmed that it was not a diamond, but possibly a semi-precious white sapphire, with a value almost exactly that of the amount of money I felt I had been underpaid. The jeweller wanted a testing fee to be certain and we never got round to it. I have long since lost it again, so maybe one day someone else will find it and mistakenly think they have hit the jackpot!

I've still got no idea how it got to be in the old feller's vegetable patch in the first place though. :wonder:

Anyone else stumbled across any interesting stuff like that?

No but really enoyed your tale!:)

13 or 14 I was walking home from school when a battered old ford transit van tossed a bag out of the window just missing me. I was pretty angry until I looked inside and found an aladins cave of porn mags. And not your run of the mill mags either these were proper hardcore dutch mags:D I sold the tatty/stuck together ones at school and made £60 odd quid and kept the lesbian ones for my private stash.

That was a good day.

when growing up used to go to Annecy, in France, every year for summer holidays and every year used to go up a local mountain called La Tournette.

One year my big sis lost a bracelet either on the way up or down.

Next year I found it on the way back down!

no monetary value but had great sentimental value to my sis as she'd been given it by a relative who had since died.

Pmsl! That's gold, pure gold to a 14 year old! I used to find em in bin liners near a layby in the middle of nowhere I'd ride up every few weeks and wahey a new stash of mags! :D:thumb:


just remembered it was always great fun trying to smuggle them upstairs past my folks, half down the back of my jeans and half up my jumper, backing around the walls all the way up to my room! How my folks never spotted my SAS style entrance I'll never know! Aahh teenage joys!

Must something about being a lad, I remember finding one under a car by my house .. (how come no one throws porn around these days?) anyway.. I was about 10 and totally shocked by these pictures .. so much so I showed it to my dad.. who ripped it up and binned it .. I took the pieces out the bin and kept them for years LOL ...

i took a mates metal detector to the beach, picked up a few coins then got a big hit. after a bit of digging i uncovered a spade:mad:

lol at the above, a bongo mag find:D along with finding packs of fags people had dropped. the stuff of early teens dreams!

found an SLR camera in about 98, all the long lenses etc in its proper bag.

took it to the police. got a receipt and after 28 days I went back and got it as no one had gone into claim it.

you see, honesty is the best policy !

Wow, I can't believe it! I was telling my Mrs the other day how when me and my mates were young lads in the mid 80's we would often find porn mags stashed in bushes or discarded in ditches :) haha, she never believed me.
It looks like it was a common thing then.
I've never found anything of any value though.

Whilst gardening at school (aged 11 or 12) found a Winston Churchill Commemorative Crown in the Head Master's vegetable patch - wasn't his so I kept it :)

Was clearing out some old farm sheds about 5 years ago and found some tax discs from the early 1920s. Sold them on ebay for around £250.

Cleaning the grid out last summer and found an old tuppence coin, dated around 1880, think it had been there quite some time :lol1:

Tony:)

I found the holy grail apparently it is not worth much :(

On a brighter note found a crappy nokia phone that belonged to a drug dealer with all his contacts listed gave him it back and was paid in cash!

Corrected the spelling of the last word for you. Boom Boom!

My Dad found a high-end Canon camera on a train from London about 15 years ago. All the accompanying documentation was in Japanese, so I guess it belonged to a tourist. He's still got it.

I wish it was hash turbo2 50 squid and some kind of hand shake :)

I found a white envelope once on the floor with £1600 quid in it! Happy days

That was mine you barsteward;)

i found an old mirror in a burnt ouut building sold it for £90 ..25 years ago