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Rumours from Poland that a legendary lost train full of Nazi loot - 300 tons of Gold Bullion, etc - may have been found:
Links: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33994483 & http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/finders-keepers-two-treasure-hunters-claim-to-have-found-nazi-ghost-train-filled-with-gold-but-want-10-per-cent
Yep. We'll be finding their loot for a few hundred years yet...
Update - Found Train Confirmed: http://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/news/a17087/confirmed-nazi-loot-train-found/ & http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34090936
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The find yesterday, a small (3" diameter) Uranium Glass Vase. My camera doesn't capture the UV spectrum well, but it fluoresces a bright yellow/green under UV light. 25 Cents, curious as to what it will fetch on eBay, bought it on a hunch (the slight fluorescence in daylight), need to bring UV light with me and see if I can't find more pieces. Other finds of the day included a pair of antique candlesticks, with nicks in the bases where they'd been converted to Electric light, "A History of Russia" by Bernard Pares and "Street of Crocodiles" by Bruno Schulz. Left a couple of antique candlesticks at VV, too expensive and one, beautifully aged and polished beyond shape and recognition, but missing the push-up lever, shame, but I don't need more junk...
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A lady takes an old computer to be recycled. Only in this instance it's an Apple 1, worth about $200,000, and the person who took the computer is looking to reach the donor to split the profits. Nice.
Link: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_28221648/apple-i-sells-200000-discarded-junk-mystery
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A 50 Kg silver bar found off the coast of Madagascar is attributed to the infamous Captain Kidd, more treasure awaits:
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Saturday is Review day at the Chamber of Mines, nothing new, Q&A and look at the rocks, and I take the opportunity to skip out and do another form of prospecting. Garage Sales.
Finds include a broken trumpet, trombone stand, pinwheel crystal vase, a box of role playing games for $10 that I flip in Calgary for $130, and the two treasures pictured below:
A vintage ceramic ashtray, with rocking bobble legs, animated by Google Auto-Awesome, and the Acupuncture kit pictured below:
They're longer than they look. With these I've almost completed my holistic and occidental medicine course, Dentistry or Acupuncture? Now to hang my shingle and find some patients...