Couple buy $500k Victorian home and find a 1920s breast pump in the floorboards

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A couple bought a Victorian house for $550k - and were surprised to find a 1920s vintage breast pump in their floorboards while renovating.  Amanda DeRise, 32, and her husband, Vinny, 43, stumbled across the six bedroom house in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, and fell in love.  They bought the home in October 2024 and began gutting out the second floor - and started to notice things peeking out of the floorboards.  Amanda has found around 100 items - including old letters, a 1920s breast pump, and a 1948 Stan Musial rookie card, which some estimate could be worth $1k.

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00:00I think we've come to the end of finding all the old things so I wanted to make a

00:03video of my favorite things that we have found starting with this one which is

00:11wild what I thought was a horn people in the comments quickly told me that this

00:17is actually a breast pump so that's wild not on my bingo card to find a vintage

00:23breast pump in the walls of my house but here we are so cool what else this old

00:31and pretty good condition actually Egyptian cigarette box seeing this old

00:39yo-yo which people some people said that this might be worth a lot of money I

00:44don't know I tried to look into it didn't find much all of these old greeting cards

00:50that were just really pretty and cute this one is happy birthday they all

00:57have notes on the back of them this one I think is New Year's it says from your

01:02pal Ella so pretty this old industry bank savings book and what's really cool about

01:13this is just how old it is the if they these dates say 1921 just so old and

01:22really cool this one people in the comments were going crazy about is his

01:27two bandits killed but everyone thought was the article about Bonnie and Clyde but

01:32it's not it's um month from Monday February 2nd 1931 these old rolling papers that we

01:42found also in very good condition like look at the rolling papers I could

01:47probably still roll a cigarette in there and there's like little instructions on

01:51how to roll a cigarette in them let's see what else this old where did it go keep

01:58on being like this old yet everything is very old campaign pin for Alfred E Smith I

02:07don't think I put this in one of my videos but this is a what we think is a

02:13multi-tool so this there's a bunch of pieces inside of it okay very old I call

02:26this a spinny toy and everyone in the comments like that's a top top toy old

02:34old cigarette um camel cigarette somebody I was laughing something in the

02:38comments was like oh because we found all this gray hair restore gray dye like all

02:45the jars of it somebody was like that's a that was a middle-aged closeted smoker that

02:52lived in that house I thought that was funny um baby talcum oh sorry baby talcum

03:01this one was really pretty this one this jar which people think were was

03:05talcum powder as well all these old these are my favorite I love these the

03:10little army toys I don't know if it was like a little kid who was just shoving his

03:15toys because like this was a toy just shoving his toys in the ceiling or in the

03:20floorboards like this what everyone thought was Robert the doll just a little

03:26cute sailor it was made out of wood the old light bulbs which were just like old

03:34Edison light bulbs little tip that I was like what is that and everyone said that

03:38that's from when they were the class being blown I was really afraid to open this

03:44and everyone said it's probably a shaving stick they think it was like the Colgate

03:51emblem on top that's pretty cool I was like freaking about opening it up all the

03:58old letters that everyone was coming at me saying I couldn't read cursive but it's

04:02just really that it the handwriting itself is very hard to read from 1931 so

04:08thank you to all the people in those comments that helped me read them very

04:11helpful this one was a hit the truth about Catholics that maybe one day I'll read

04:17out loud there's just so much clothing pin so everyone was asking me like what

04:29are you gonna do with all of it you need to make a shadow box and I definitely

04:33want to you know showcase it in some way I think it's just too much stuff for a

04:39shadow box so I think I want to put everything like a curio case there's a

04:44room off the side of the house that eventually I want to make into a library

04:47so I thought it would be cool to have a little museum of the house

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