Most Unusual Find?

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I've started a repair/restore project on a Beogram 8002. While doing the initial inspection, I noticed something out of place... Finding a cigar band is unusual enough, but this particular one appears to come from a Cuban cigar which were illegal in the USA for most of the Beogram's life. I've had a other instances of finding things inside old electronics that make one wonder about how they got there. Have any of you had similar experiences? I'd find it very interesting to hear about them. Glitch    
It's not uncommon to find spare cartridges, or parts thereof, inside Beograms. Same goes for center pucks, stylus guards and needle brushes. I have also found lots of coins, keys, jewelry, LEGO bricks etc. Under the dust cover seems to be a "safe" place to store small items. When the Beogram is later moved, the things slide around and fall into the innards. In the larger 1930s to 1960s valve-based radios you could, and still can, sometimes find savings and love letters. These radios were often fairly large cabinets with room to spare, - a good and safe place to keep secrets from the wife, as she was not likely to ever go in there. Here batteries in a Beogram 5500, arrived here for repairs because the carriage was blocked: Close, but no cigar. Martin

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