I can add Dumpster Diver to my resume now too.

[Robby Raccoon]

Lisa, they didn't use those with me--I failed mine. [] They only failed to keep me in the hospital because someone from the state wouldn't come over at 11 pm.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Well, there goes anything dry that isn't raised up and roofed. :/
There was a beautiful puzzle put on canvas with the state's birds in there--to hang on the wall-- but when I leaned it back to look at the back, a section fell away like a glacier and crashed down into the dumpster. []The two 5-cent stamps are worth a 50 cents to a dollar now according to sold Ebay listings.

 

[Aloysia]

Hi..... Ur most valuable item is the pencil sharpener! It looks like it has some ag e on it! I am an Antique dealer.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Aloysia, thanks! I see them often. The books are worthless--I look and see a weird creature in the '29 dictionary, though! A aardwolf. Hah ha, it's so cute!-- the stamps I'm more likely to use, and the sharpener does work. But the cards are pretty neat. I'll certainly hang on to them for ever.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

With the old dictionary, I know helicopters go back to at least the 1920s. "aeronef: A machine for navigating the air, as an aeroplane, helicopter, etc." They were still making tri-planes, shown by the picture in it.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

As for the sharpener and such, Muskegon Public Schools were basically our first public schools--dating into the 1800s. So unless that 47 means something, we really cannot determine age save for when they started making this style.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Today I scored a mid-1940s dictionary in fair condition, a set of 1958 Kodachrome pictures, three metal inks--one in it's original box-- and a glass ink still filled, several ink-pad stamps that have to do with Muskegon Public Schools, to Postage Paid, to signature stamps, Bear brand tacks (looks more like a mouse! Grrr.) an attache case that works, Crayola Chalk, a metal protractor and related stuff... You'll have to forgive my poor photos. About half of them I took blindly, so the fact I photographed anything it all is a miracle.
Here is the case.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Here are the metal inks. Anyone know when they're from and if they hold any value over 50 cents? A lot of 1960s stuff in here. I also, the first day, brought out a piece of furniture-- we brought the van for it, and it started me into the construction dumpster. Nice wood and glass display cabinet.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

The Kodachrome pictures! For a projector I think.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Some stamps. Yes, I photographed the one upside down.