dedhed

Not that old - plastic wheels and not rubber with insert hubcaps

repechage

probably a metal shop project from an industrial education course.

Just struck a memory, made a version of that vise with cast aluminum jaws as part of a materials and processes class, decades ago. Professor kept mine, I forgot to ask for it a year later.
Oh well. useful as it had lots of diverse processes involved in it.

dweenk

^^^^^^ Woodworkers vise. It should have wooden jaw inserts aand mounts under the top of the workbench.

randyjawa 

Needless to say, I have not kept this thread current. Simply put, when it gets cold in Thunder Bay, the flow to the dump sloooowwwwwwsssss. However, every now and again, even when covered with a patina of snow, something kina cool surfaces.

I spotted this roll top cabinet (jewelry case) at the dump, a couple of weeks ago. I liked it, blew the patina of snow off of it, and put it in the trunk of the Civic...




I took the cabinet inside and set it down. I had groceries and stuff to unload, so I paid no heed to the box as I was unloading the car. During that process, my daughter, all excited, came to the back door, asking if I had looked inside the box? I said no and then she showed me this...

Dylansbob 

When I worked at a goodwill back in the day, the manager told me to "ALWAYS" check the drawers. and to pull out the drawers to make sure there's no evelopes wedged in. Looks like a good find.

bwilli88 

I made one similar when I went to college for Industrial Arts/Technology Education. Nice vice for mounting under a bench.
I went to Millersville University in PA in 83 to 87.

randyjawa 

Just a quick note - the Hunter's pocket watch is not valuable, nor is its missing battery. The chain, belonging to Brenda is a medi alert for penicillin. The pin, in the plastic bag, says FND, short for found, I guess:-)

3speedslow

The value is in the joy of a little girls discovery!

randyjawa 

That little girl is now a grand mother two times and he oldest made me a great grand father.

TheRodeWarrior

I had a similar watch in pewter from Consumers Distributing back in the day. My brother had a matching bronze coloured one. Nice find. Pin seems to be National Firearms Assoc. Canada

randyjawa 

Thank you for the heads up on that. I could not help but wonder and I do intend to keep the pin. It will be nailed to the display beam under my lake cottage where I display other interesting dump finds...

randyjawa 

I would have missed this Samsung laptop which was buried, charger and all, under a boxed pile of school books and stuff. But my daughter did find it and it works just fine..!


She also found this original photograph by a well known photographer. Of this,, I know nothing but she buys storage containers, now and again, and is good at researching value...

Velikus

Great thread! I especially love that painting at the beginning. A few friends of mine go thru alleys and its amazing the stuff they find...

VtwinVince

Cool photo, I would say from the '70's, looking across False Creek towards the North Shore mountains with the Scotia Tower.

randyjawa 

It is darn cold where I live, with temperatures usually hovering around minus 20 degrees - burrrrr, pooey stinko (picture is a couple of cold days old)...


But the dump is starting to cough up stuff already in 2021. On Saturday, I went to dump number 1 and scored a box of (what I thought to be antique) Christmas ornaments. My daughter checked the items over, indicating little or no value. Personally, I would have put them on Kijiji for twenty bucks. Anyway...

She wanted to go to Sally's dump (dump #2) and so we headed out. Shortly after starting, I mentioned that, earlier that morning, I had stopped at dump 1, saw a 1993 Toronto Maple Leafs championship print (four feet wide and two feet high) and a single hockey card, both laying in a pile of junk. But the kind of junk that I have come to recognize...

Where I have my summer home, there are tons of cottages. Old people die or just can't keep the places up anymore. The place gets sold and the new owners, frequently, bring in a bulldozer and flatten the old building(s), hauling walls, ceilings, roofs and all, including house contents to the dump.

Well, my daughter insisted that I take her there, after doing the Sally dump run. We did and she found thousands, literally thousands, of hockey, baseball and football cards. Most are plastic but some are from the 1930s and up. She is overwhelmed with how to catalog all of these cards. Anyway, the find of yesterday...

dweenk

When I went to college in the fall of 1967 my mother decided to clean out the attic. Out went a decade of Marvel and DC comics, thousands of baseball cards, and a hefty stamp collection. She didn't need to chuck my Erector Set because little brother had already destroyed it.

shoota 

Just look for the old cards, the new ones aren't probably worth the paper they're printed on.

curbtender

The local card store sells them as a grab bag. When they started selling complete sets it killed a lot of trading.

randyjawa 

Last week's trading card find netted my daughter $275.00 for the bulk of them and the guy who bought them was thrilled. Four or five of those cards she kept, thinking they might have some monetary value. Anyway...

It is Feb 17, 2021 and pretty darn cold outside today. None the less, my daughter and I went to Sally's dump and Shuniah's dump and, according to my daughter, we scored pretty darn good. We got a lot of stuff, including old books hand painted art, a 6" brand new Mastercraft adjustable wrench, an ornate leaded glass jar or decanter. Some old and strange tools. But the meat of todays find - old coins...


The coins, a couple anyway, are rare. Turns out the little silver one is a 1943d penny incorrectly stamped with the metal that dimes are made of - last one sold for $52,000.00. There is also an 1891 Indian head penny but unsure of value, at this moment (not positive about the value of the 1943d penny also). A coin from the 1968 Mexico Olympics - not sure of value, if any. The others, I am not sure about but I am sure about one thing - my daughter is still pretty darn excited...


Anyway, if the coins mentioned do have value, they are for sale and, if they are worth a bit, I get to go buy a motorcycle. I hope this one is still available...

Dylansbob 

I'm guessing that '43 is non-magnetic then....

I'd better have a check on my stash of steel cents to make sure I don't have fortune in my drawer.

scarlson 

The cent is almost certainly a wartime steel cent. These were made of steel and coated with zinc plating. The black spots on it are likely faults in the zinc plating. Check it with a magnet. Wartime steel cents are worth about a dollar or two these days.

A cent incorrectly struck on a dime planchet will often, but not always, lack the raised edge, the dime being ever so slightly smaller than the cent so the planchet doesn't fill up the dies completely. The magnet test is easiest, because dimes from that era were silver (and no US dimes were ever magnetic). But just looking at it, US silver coins from that era (especially ones that have been circulated) will yellow with tarnish so it should be easy to spot an incorrect planchet error among steel cents, even from a distance.

In addition, if I'm not mistaken about the rest of what I've said in this post, the black scars and suspiciously shiny plating may indicate that it's been re-plated at some point in its history. This used to be a popular way to "increase" the value of steel cents.

Sorry to be a coin nerd, I was a huge coin collector in my childhood and I am lucky enough to have remembered a couple things!

Fahrenheit531 

The things I've learned on BikeForums...

scarlson 

Encouraged by the above, ex coin nerd strikes again.

The Mexican 25 pesos is probably the most valuable coin there. It's a bit banged up, so probably little numismatic value, but It is made of 22.5g of 0.72 fine silver, so it's got an intrinsic value in the metal, maybe ten or fifteen dollars depending on the current silver price.

Hope I'm not too disappointing!!

cbrstar

Man in my city if you take a bike from the dump it's a $250 fine, or 6 months in jail. I hate thinking about all the great bikes that have ended up crushed.

randyjawa 

Thanks to those who know more about cents that I do and have more sense than some younger people that were involved. No motorcycle for me. Pooey stinko! However...

Many other items were found yesterday...