Early Abandoned House with antiques inside!

[diktheduk]

If I were to remove something from a house or building I do not own or have explicit permission to do so, I would not post on the internet what I did and provide pictorial evidence. Just saying.

 

[RCO]

Here is what I mean. Early appliances still in their place!
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old appliances are usually really heavy so makes sense they'd still be there , no one would have any use for them

there sometimes are abandoned houses on publically owned land , we have land here called " crown land " usually 100 acre blocks in rural or very remote areas which was never settled on or left early on and so is owned by the government . not really used for much other than hunting or logging

you rarely see homes on those lots though , was one , sure it was on crown land . drove by it a couple weeks ago but someone had recently tore it down . although when I was last in it last year , wasn't anything much there , don't think it was that old either , more looked old

 

[jwpevahouse]

If I were to remove something from a house or building I do not own or have explicit permission to do so, I would not post on the internet what I did and provide pictorial evidence. Just saying.

A reasonable, ethical view of a subject often ignored by collectors blinded by the alure of finding "treasure".

 

[K6TIM]

When people say "abandoned house" do they mean no one owns the property? Or is it someone's property which isn't being used? If someone owns the property they legally own it's contents as well. What is the legality of going on someone else's property and taking things? If people throw something in the trash anyone interested can legally take a discarded item. however, if they leave something laying around their property it's still theirs and taking it would be stealing.
My brother and I leaned that leason early when we went in an uninhabited old house, took some things and the owner found out later on. We were just naive kids but we had to return things to the rightful owner.

Hi Jwpevahouse,
I've been in many of them over the years.Yes it might abandoned,but it's own by someone.This means you tresspassing!Don't let it stop you unless the rightful owner comes along tells you to get outThen leave the property ASAP.Don't give any guff ok?

 

[Tigrdog1]

Lol…K6TIM
I’m 64 and from a small town here in the south and when we were young we would roam the deep woods in the fall and winter
(No orange on BTW!!). Old county roads long since abandoned and grown back to Mother Nature barely visible, we would walk. We would find old turn of the last century houses also going back to dust, but searching them and the surrounding forested hills and gullys were a treat. Fruit jars, porcelain pans and buckets. Old pulleys still hanging from a tree over wells and cisterns lined with bricks. We would find old news papers that lined the rooms of some houses….. grown over with wisteria. I just reminisce. I agree now a days it is a lost art, and dangerous and since they don’t build houses like they used to, “old houses” will no longer exist.
Ditto on the fine line of “finding stuff”. Be careful and respectful.

Rik

 

[PlaneDiggerCam]

If I were to remove something from a house or building I do not own or have explicit permission to do so, I would not post on the internet what I did and provide pictorial evidence. Just saying.

Like I said before, this particular home, in particular, was owned by the state who took it a long time ago for a highway that never happened, and therefore since it was not marked, I can access it. The state doesn't care about the contents of the house or even the house itself, just the property. Plus I wasn't the only one who had taken stuff by the looks of it when I got there. I rescued valuable local historical things like that hand fan and those tickets from decay. More or less, I just took many pics and didn't take much, although I could have since I would be allowed to. As I said, I always make sure it is non-marked state or town land where I can access and find stuff. If it is not I will either try to get permission or not access it. Trespassing isn't applicable when it is not marked public land and I pay the taxes for it.

 

[buriedtreasuretime]

Lol…K6TIM
I’m 64 and from a small town here in the south and when we were young we would roam the deep woods in the fall and winter
(No orange on BTW!!). Old county roads long since abandoned and grown back to Mother Nature barely visible, we would walk. We would find old turn of the last century houses also going back to dust, but searching them and the surrounding forested hills and gullys were a treat. Fruit jars, porcelain pans and buckets. Old pulleys still hanging from a tree over wells and cisterns lined with bricks. We would find old news papers that lined the rooms of some houses….. grown over with wisteria. I just reminisce. I agree now a days it is a lost art, and dangerous and since they don’t build houses like they used to, “old houses” will no longer exist.
Ditto on the fine line of “finding stuff”. Be careful and respectful.

Rik

When I was a kid in 1962, I lived in a rural town in northern Nevada, 5000 people, there was an “abandoned “China town” block with ramshackle houses decaying. The interior walls had newspaper dated 1901 on the walls nailed or pasted to them, my mom pointed out the date, she was a fascinated as we kids were. There was a care taker that lived in the property and us kids were scared of him. At some point he goes away and the city talks of destroying the settlement and building a new public library. My brother and I find a trap door and a ladder into a basement. I found a railroad lantern in perfect shape and a tall tobacco Jar like for store display with the date 1875 on the bottom, large ground lip, 18” tall and 8” diameter. The RR lantern is long gone but I still have that tobacco jar. If only I had known about old bottles at that age 7 years old my mom kept that Tobacco jar safe for me, I would have broken it at that age( we lived across the alley and it was just such fascination to us mischievous kids. They eventually razed the buildings and all the bottle diggers began to show up, me, my brother and my mom included. We pulled some great stuff out of that site as did others. Lots of Chinese pottery, opium ( medicines or such)vials, lady’s legs whisky, old flasks, sauce bottles, lots with pontils . Oh and I was so impatient I broke many trying to get them out. Paper thin pumpkin seed flasks. Man those were the days. I envy you guys that can still find untouched dig sites that are fair game.


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[jwpevahouse]

This is a very relevant topic for bottle collectors, trespassing. Who hasn't found a dump on private property? The temptation is just too much, restraint gets thrown out the door. The worse offense is diggers who leave open pits, frowned on by most serious bottle diggers but an offense abused by some. So, if you have to dig on private property, be responsible.

 

[PlaneDiggerCam]

This is a very relevant topic for bottle collectors, trespassing. Who hasn't found a dump on private property? The temptation is just too much, restraint gets thrown out the door. The worse offense is diggers who leave open pits, frowned on by most serious bottle diggers but an offense abused by some. So, if you have to dig on private property, be responsible.

And that is why if I do get a dump on private property we ask permission.

 

[relic rescuer]

Super cool. What's in the last pic?

That's an old fridge.