Things in the Walls

While breaking open the faux-fireplace, stuff started falling out of the wall. Mostly plaster and nails, but an interesting assortment of stuff.

An interesting assortment of cut nails - two distinct sizes, after I sorted them out. The ones that look even sorter than the sort ones are actually broken off. That long piece of wire to the left is a wire nail, installed using a gun. Many of them still had plastic clinging to them from the carrier that feeds the nails into the gun.

Close ups!

Wallpaper fragments. I haven't seen this wallpaper anywhere else in the house (still hanging). I think these are two different wallpapers, but the bit on the left could just be water stained. It seems to have a pretty distinct blue cast though.

Newspaper bits - To the left - want ads for "a young man", spinners, and bicycle repair men. The right has a bit of an illustration on it, but I can't make out anything really.

Plaster colors - At some point, the plaster was dark green, blackish, reddish brown, and then the light green.

There were also strips of fabric - linen I think, but I could get a decent picture of the texture. There was also a bit of clear glass bottle bottom, with no distinct features save for a few little pips on the outside edge which indicate a machine made bottle for production-line sort of use.
I don't have much desire to rip out any more horsehair if I don't have to. It's excellent in regard to sound deadening, and it supplying me what little R value my walls currently have. But it is always interesting to see what shakes out when you do open them up.