Farmer's doorstop turns out to be very pricey artifact

Interesting. Unfortunately here we don't have interesting things to dig up, besides unexploded civil war ordnance....

In this day and age, why the fuck does an article like that NOT HAVE A FUCKING PICTURE??

I see a picture. Do you not?

Searching thru the garage after reading, no luck.

I do to.


Also food for thought. The NC gold rush was started because of a similar story

Farmer used some gold rock they found as a door stop for years until someone realized it was a huge nugget.

My Dad was a HUGE hoarder. His 2 1/2 car garage was full of stuff, some of which he'd hauled out from Kansas in 1959, when we cleaned it out in 2002. We had a good and profitable sale on his house so we didn't have time to search through stuff. We hauled up some large 40-yd dumpsters and junked about 80% of the stuff.

Since then I have avoided watching Antiques Road Show.

"We have a very well-preserved genuine 1850s gewgaw, commonly found in the Midwest; most were destroyed in the Civil War. I estimate that your find is worth at least $80,000, Martha. But you're not going to give away a family heirloom, are you?"

"Are  you shitting me, Mark? I found this in a..."

If everyone doesn't throw their stuff away, then it will never become valuable.

It's kind of like that movie Predestination.