wartimecollectables.com Posted June 11, 2017 Share #1 Posted June 11, 2017 Some finds are rare and valuable, some are unique, and occasionally something is just a surprise!I've been replacing the baseboards and quarter-round in my home in South Carolina the last few weeks. My home is nothing fancy but a nice old brick home built in 1910. I yanked up a piece of quarter round on the flooring of a bedroom and tucked under it was a WWII USN Dogtag, 1943 dated, and obviously had been there since the war. I found the guy on 'find a grave' and he was a Pharmacist Mate in WWII and from Georgia. How he lost a dog tag in a bedroom in my house I do not know but I enjoyed this small treasure as much as bigger ones I've found! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wartimecollectables.com Posted June 11, 2017 Author Share #2 Posted June 11, 2017 And yes, I'm pretty sure the family that owned this home in the 40's had daughters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Devil Posted June 11, 2017 Share #3 Posted June 11, 2017 That is quite a find! Beyond awesome to find something like that in a home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USdog Posted June 11, 2017 Share #4 Posted June 11, 2017 That's awesome, wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted June 11, 2017 Share #5 Posted June 11, 2017 Most likely was the sailors room, he probably went nuts looking for it. Cool find. Sent from my XT1031 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
268th C.A. Posted June 12, 2017 Share #6 Posted June 12, 2017 Its intresting for sure, My brother who for years installed flooring. Would always bring me wheat pennys he would find behind the floor mouldings, He said it was a common thing that the finishing carpenter would place a penny with the date the house was built behind the moulding for good luck! He once found a Ten Dollar gold piece that had obviously been dropped on the floor and kicked under the molding. Treasure is all around us. Nice find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USARV72 Posted June 12, 2017 Share #7 Posted June 12, 2017 Gee, all I found when remod. our old house was old beer cans opened with church keys! Nice find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stratasfan Posted June 27, 2017 Share #8 Posted June 27, 2017 How cool! Our house was originally a one-room cabin, built in the 1800s, and slowly added onto through the 1970s. It now looks like a typical farmhouse, except the rooms are kind of in odd places sometimes, and the stairs are actually in the kitchen, and no closets. We've redone most of the house and never found something like this! Cool story! Here is a 1947 picture of your vet. He went to the University of Georgia, right after WWII. Studied veterinary medicine. 1948: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wartimecollectables.com Posted June 27, 2017 Author Share #9 Posted June 27, 2017 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobgee Posted June 27, 2017 Share #10 Posted June 27, 2017 Great story! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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