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\Rain & lowering water has made for abundant collecting along the lakeshore:
The flints on the right show the most work - top right, a well worked and worn scraper, below more scrapers, a knife edge, etc. On the left more flakes and shapes I found curious. Yes, I know, worst choice of background ever...
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Heading to work Friday and I come across the first garage sale of the weekend, just setting up. A box of pens, I pick through them:
6 Pens, 1 Mont Blanc, 4 Cross, 1 Schaeffer. "How Much?"... "A dollar?". I give him $10, it's all I have, there are limits to how badly I can take advantage of somebody.
Saturday morning, the promise of Friday's hit fresh in my glove-box, off early, there are a variety of sales to be hit. Tools, tools, some I need, but no place to store, and so I pass, some I need and I can't pass up on, 2 Dremel's for $6.00, 5 flashlights/headlamps, $10.00, an air-pistol, $10.00 - this for a colleague at work whom I have a business proposition for...
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In todays dollars that would be around $200, 000. Not bad for a single pan. And note that most of the old time miners weren't interested in keeping records, so a lot of lucky strikes like this went unrecorded.
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How did I miss this?
I mean, treasure for sure, but it found her:
Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meteorite-crashes-into-womans-bedroom-golden-bc
Now, given the provenance, a small fortune basically landed on the pillow beside her while she was sleeping...