10-31-2022 07:20 PM
Prepping a spendy coat to list and I'm going through the pockets.
Wut?
10-31-2022 07:25 PM
Ahhhh pocket discoveries. Got a hand-me-down vintage coat a few years ago and found toothpicks in one pocket. A faded receipt, a parking stub, a few coins and a plastic army man in the other pocket. No match books.
10-31-2022 07:56 PM
I once found a ticket stub to a move in 1954 in the pocket of a men's vintage jacket - that was cool - I included it with the jacket when it sold. It was for a movie theatre in Seattle that had closed when I was a teenager.
10-31-2022 10:29 PM
I use to run a retail store that bought and sold used militaria. Nothing like having the family come in to sell grandpa's army gear and then I pull out a pack of vintage condoms from one of grandpa's coat pockets.
10-31-2022 10:29 PM
I used to think that those stories about people finding stashes of cash in the personal effects of older persons were just so much fantasy. Then my mother told me about the time she & her sisters found out that their parents (my grandparents) were not cashing/depositing their Social Security checks! The told their girls that they didn't need the governments money, the farm was doing quite well and they had everything they needed. It took a bit of explaining that SSI was not a government handout - it was the payout of an insurance premium they paid every year when they filed their income taxes. The girls switched them to automatic deposit and the subject was never discussed again. 🙂
-Bob.
10-31-2022 10:36 PM
Had a pirate treasure coin on a cert board fall out of a old cook book flipping through it one time it was a roll of cash in every recite kind of unit..
10-31-2022 11:18 PM
Include the note with the coat and advertise as a "Bad Boys Coat". Might get a better price from someone fascinated by the "seedy side".
11-01-2022 12:05 AM
@richard1rst wrote:Include the note with the coat and advertise as a "Bad Boys Coat". Might get a better price from someone fascinated by the "seedy side".
😁
Turns out that the coat fits me great, looks good and I'm keeping it lol! Maybe I'll just keep those matches and pull them out if someone needs to light a candle or an...um...smokeable (*nudge nudge wink wink*).
11-01-2022 03:15 AM
at least you have a contact number in case you need to post bail
11-01-2022 03:50 AM
I'd list the matchbook. Some collector is probably looking for one.
11-01-2022 04:02 AM
11-01-2022 06:04 AM
@chapeau-noir I'm guessing the coat belonged to a Boy Scout. Their motto is "Be Prepared."
11-01-2022 06:58 AM
I once found $100. in twenties in a pocket and another time I found a pistol and bullets in a traincase.
11-01-2022 07:53 AM
11-01-2022 09:12 AM
I think I've found maybe 35 cents in pockets - never that $$ bonanza!