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Jun 4, 2021 18 tweets 11 min read Read on X
🚨urgent🚨 hello epic rare find alert think i just stumbled across a mothman stuffed animal
its just one of those days. may post cool finds in this thread (1936)
mfw the old lady checking me out calls the mothman stuffed animal “the bat boy”
this is pretty cool. i literally just dug this out of a massive dirty barn full of broken wooden furniture and random antiques (as in i had to full-on climb over piles of stuff to find it)
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anyone trying to learn about the specific gravity of honey
uh oh
bro please its a completely different bee ethnicity bro please just try raising them theyre not even the same size
bees have raceism
hello i will show you more books i found today. the lady who owned the barn did not know what to charge me so i suggested $2 a book and she eagerly agreed.
found book of mormon. grabbed it because i couldnt find the date + noticed its formatting, which is more like a normal book than the 4 column layout i usually see. thought it might be an old one from before it was “reformatted” (or something, not 100% on the history) but its not
heres an interesting one. i think this is from 1870. i picked this up mostly because you can see that signature in one of the images, i thought it might have actually been signed by the guy who its about, but turns out thats just how its printed. interesting either way:
the signature is obviously very odd. the image of him is an engraving, so, did this guy (who the book is about) sign the engraving plate at the bottom? is that why it looks like that? was his handwriting actually just that bad? old guy who shakey hands? we may never know.
part of the interesting thing with finding this stuff is wondering what the tale is. example: this box of books had a few mormon things in it. so i thought, okay, maybe a mormon guy pooled these. but the actual commonality was books from independence missouri, not denomination
didnt pick up the other books but in the box was also baptist and other random christian stuff all from independence missouri. so, whats the deal. was it someone else like me who was just pooling interesting christian books and happened to live there? of course we will never know
other random find. got a cool last one to close things off
kind of speaks for itself. pretty heavy duty. this one was from the same place that had the mothman stuffed animal. overall an excellent day for book patrol. there are books, very cheap, waiting for you on the side of the road, fellow traveler
thread from last time. not trying to flex like i drop a lot of money on books or anything, i get this stuff insanely cheap. hope your weekend is going well so far.

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