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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 8066838, member: 77639&quot;]Was reading an article by a carpenter who does some demolition work on old New England houses.&nbsp; Sometimes he’ll salvage chunks of hardwood and make something new from them.&nbsp; Occasionally, he finds coins in walls too … no big hoards, just one or two now and then.</p><p><br /></p><p>A recent project was to make a storage box from American chestnut which was recovered from an 18th century house.&nbsp; Most American chestnut trees were killed in the early 20th century by an imported fungus.&nbsp; 4 billion trees died … 25% of old eastern forests.&nbsp; The box has a sliding lid with a finger hole.&nbsp; At the bottom of the hole, he put a 1902 Barber half … very cool!&nbsp; See the pic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1398574[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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