Finders keepers
Leave it to Abebooks.com to hit on a particular quirk of the used-book market: finding old items hidden within the pages of secondhand books. In an amusing feature on their site, Abebooks asked their booksellers to tell them about their most interesting finds, which include, among others:
- a baby’s tooth
- a diamond ring
- a Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card
- a Christmas card signed by L. Frank Baum
- forty $1,000 bills hidden inside an old cookbook
And that’s not all:
Aside from all the letters, torn out newspaper articles, shopping lists, business cards, and postcards (sent and unsent), other objects discovered by AbeBooks.com booksellers include a World War II U.S. ration book (with stamps remaining), World War II discharge papers, a pair of scissors, a valid driver’s license, a marriage certificate from 1879, a holographic image of a lady who sheds her clothing, theater playbills, a condom (unused), a cockroach (dead), and a strip of bacon.
