Reggie's Attic Estates & Antiques

From another writer that wishes to remain anonymous... About four years ago I bought out a condemned house. It wasn't your typical walk in, pack it, load it out. It was more like cirque du soleil with sumo wrestlers. The house was falling in around us. With every step you worried is this going to send me through the floor? With no electricity you didn't know what you were stepping on, grabbing, etc and sometimes you didn't want to see. The best thing we dug out was an old trunk. The thing was heavy and it took two of us to drag it down from the attic. I even braced myself against the stairway wall and fell through it at one point. Thank god I was almost to the bottom. After all of the trouble of getting it down 2 flights of stairs we barely had the energy to cut the lock off. Once we cut the lock we found all sorts of wonderful treasure. It was a pilots' entire career from WWII we found in that trunk. Diaries, letters to and from home, his leather bomber...

Thanks to everyone who submitted their most unusual picks! I had 3 winners. All of the stories are rather lengthy so I am posting one a week for the next three weeks. All of my winners wish to remain anonymous. I hope you enjoy their stories as much as we did! Several years back, I found an estate auction listed on the internet in Ohio. Lots of old paper, and Victorian trade cards etc, were being sold, which I LOVE! I decided to check it out by myself. I arrived to find a HUGE tent set up in the back yard, with tables on the outside, and chairs in the middle. I started to look around, and found that all the wonderful old paper was packaged individually, every single item had been gone through, there were no box lots of any kind. The auction started, and I soon found out I was not the only one that LOVED old Paper! Every piece, including the Scrap albums were going extremely high. I would bid as high as I thought I could and make money on resale, but I was continually ou...