Look what I found!

A dusty old barn in the middle of Millis holds promise. Breaking and entering conviction promise yes, but that's beside the point. Anyway we were getting ice cream like 2 minutes from there anyway, so don't tell me the feeling of ownership I had is void of law.

It was dark inside, and the only source of light we had to work with was the occasional stick of yellow sun on the floor from a crack in the wood ceiling and the old flashlight we got from one of the cashiers at the ice cream place, which was pretty much of batteries anyway. There was a greenhouse attached to the barn on the left side and it was teeming with life, so it was really hot inside.

Contents not pictorially recorded:

(1) box of old moth eaten 90s clothes, among them a once stylish jean jacket
(2) porn tapes featuring Pamela Anderson and an (I'm quite sure fictional) softball team
(6) empty coke bottles and one snapple bottle inside a stained cooler (snapple? how old could these have been? whatever)
(1) unopened jug of Canadian Whiskey that could have only gotten better with age
(2) pigeons flapping around the rafters the entire time we were leafing through this stuff
(1) mason jar stuffed with doorkeys. We couldn't find anything they opened but some of them were made of brass and really old.
(1) set of trivia cards that must have gone to some board game
(also)a bunch of farm supplies, including chicken cages, old boards, hundreds of bails of hay, the pulley chain off of a crane, and a few flower pots

Some of the stuff we kept because the place was bound to burn down sometime soon and there was no one within shouting distance to claim it. lol.

Plus I wanted pics.

there were crates of these really old alcohol bottles. I loved this one because it says "Boston" on it. Many of them had no inscriptions and some were colored like sea glass. Upon research I deduced that it was a Root beer Liquor Bottle with the raised inscription "E. Hartshorn & Sons, Est. 1850, Boston". This company was popular in the mid 1800s but ran out of business in 1935 (probably in the Great Depression). Really dirty but I plan to run it through with vinegar and baking soda or something.







This lock (really heavy, by the way) was interesting. None of the keys fit, we tried them all. I love how it says Yale on it. Maybe the owner of the barn was pretty smart? But then why... nevermind.




My fave: two lighters found in a dusty box FULL of junk. Old screws and nails and plastic jewelry and other stuff. I hope they aren't still functioning. They're both really rusty and made of brass I think. Look at the designs on them! Pure vintage.


It says "McDonald Funeral Home, Weymouth"








Super old razor. Pre-80s if Google serves me. The "1, 3, 5, 7" on the dial is for how sharpe you want the blade to be.








Political campaign pins for John A. Volpe, running for reelected MA state governor in 1964 and US Ambassador to Italy in 1973, and Goldwater/Miller from Arizona running for president also in 1964.




More photos once I clean all this stuff? Maybe.