Old Case pocket knives; a gold filigree mechanical pencil c. 1920; a solid gold filigree medallion, 1906; a first-place medallion for the Junior 50 Yard Dash, Peoria Parks, 1928; a first-place tennis medallion, 1934; antique charm bracelet charms with tiny working parts--so many treasures pulled from a dumpster yesterday--or more to the point, pulled from bags and boxes stuffed inside other bigger bags and boxes and all buried beneath still other bags and boxes inside a overstuffed dumpster.
Climb in. Dig around. Find the past.
Scrappy, are the dumpsters you dive mostly at apartments or are they more commercial? It seems like lots of personal items you find so I was just curious. I seldom dive dumpsters in favor of residential piles.
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