Period Dirt

[Bryant]

While removing the door post panels I discovered some period dirt.

This 26 Tudor was a Kansas car so I can’t help but wonder if I have some Dust Bowl dirt that’s been hiding out all these years in the crevices. The jamb was almost half full.

it is a very fine powder with sand mixed in.

so I bottled it up in this old bottle I have. I think it will make a good conversation piece.
Bryant

[JohnM]

OMG! And to think what I threw away in my shop vac!!

[Loftfield]

Absolutely fascinating little piece of history. A proper forensic analysis of the dirt would likely indicate where it originated , locally or blown in on the storm that swept Dorothy and Toto away. Keeping the dirt is not silly, it remains a forensic example of local history, exactly the sort of evidence often sought by archaeologists. I say, "Good thinking" to have preserved the dust. Well done!

[Norman Kling]

I don't think I have any dust that old, however, I do have a small bottle of Volcanic Ash from the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. We were visiting our brother in law in Moses Lake Wa. when we drove there from Tacoma and went through an area covered with that ash.
Norm

[Mark Gregush]

Actually, I think that is kinda cool! Don't forget to label the bottle.

[Bryant]

My wife wants to make a label that looks period for the bottle. I've been thinking of a title for it.
possibly
"Dust Bowl Dirt"
recovered from Kansas
Model T body crevice's.
circa 1930-1940

Or something craftier. I have some more on the shop floor if a sample is needed for verification
just the thought of dust bowl dirt being caught in there if that's where it came from makes me feel connected to the past somehow. a silly as it sounds.
Bryant

[TFan]

Gee, All I found in mine was mouse turds and corn. Jim

[Kaiser]

Reminds me of this one from some time ago :

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