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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!

 

 

 

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And yes, I'm pretty sure the family that owned this home in the 40's had daughters! B)

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BILL THE PATCH

Most likely was the sailors room, he probably went nuts looking for it. Cool find.

 

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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!

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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.

 

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