Featured Anyone else ever get more than they bargained for?

I am always buying items and finding interesting things in them, usually I find ephemera in books, but recently I found a 1892 indian head penny in a 1870s roll top desk. please share your own hidden finds, here are some of mine from the past few months:

 

buried in a couple of threads here , there's talk of how and what folks have found in old books they've bought .....mostly cash.

I bought a box lot for $10 at the end of an auction....in it was an old Arabic prayer tablet valued at $600.
I listed it on eBay at $1200 , UNTIL, I was told by an expert of it's true value.
In the end I gave it to my then best buddy for his birthday, at his birthday party, , who turned around and shamed me in front of all his other friends , for giving him some box lot trash I couldn't sell on eBay !!
That really crushed me .....in front all his other friends who looked at me and laughed....as if I was some cheap low class bastard who couldn't afford a nice gift.
( when I originally bought it...he was there..& told me how much he liked it !! )

We're no longer friends.....

 

He was certainly no friend to begin with, how very spiteful and rude .. your life is richer without the likes of him, Joy.

 

YIPES!!!
What an f n clownfart!!!!

 

I wish I could lose that memory !!!!

 

Teachable moment...hard to lose

 

Things like will always pop back in to your head and hurt you all over again but he's the loser, He lost a good and thoughtful friend.

 

Friends like that are not so special Bless his heart (http://www.onecountry.com/southern-insults-101-things-your-mama-taught-you-1647755254.html)

 

It's always painful when a "so called friend" stabs you in the back like that .. and then the laughter of so-called other friends, your heart was in the right place komokwa .. and theirs wasn't. You come out as a winner amongst a pile of losers .. onward and upward I say, Joy.

 

What an idiot.....

 

Thank you folks....that dulls the pain ....more than a little !

 

As far as buying goes, I once found an empty piece of paper (bookmark) in between a book. That's the most significant extra find I've made so far..

 

I come from a large family. My sister "Laura" was moving and brought me a large group of perennials she dug up from her garden before the closing. I thought another sister "Sue" would like some. I was going to a party at "Sue's" house and was proudly walking up the front walk carrying a box full of the plants. "Sue" looked at me and said "Oh, I don't need those, I can get whatever I want from my friend in the nursery business."

I was devastated, I felt like crying!

We've all been there and we all understand!!!!!!

 

I found a perfectly preserved violet between the pages of a heavy 1914 era Girls Own Annual, it is still there, exactly how it was first placed, Joy.

 

At the swap shop at our transfer station I picked up a small wooden box with mother of pearl inlay to sell at the flea, it was about 3" x 2". Inside were 3 cloth pouches, the top 2 were empty. The bottom 1 had about $70 worth of scrap gold in it

 

In all the books I have...a lot...I've only found a $5 bill.
...and some bookmarks and flowers.

 

Hi,
My favorite thing found in a book. The invitation to the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. They were printed by the Tiffany Co. My second favorite was a book which had all of the pages glued together. Then the center was cut out and used to store valuables. I found thirty 10 dollar bills from 1932.
greg

 

YAY! I think you showed us the bridge one once.

 

My "extra" finds have usually been things like dead bugs... or live ones.

 

I know one is in my computer but can't find it.