You’d be surprised how many lost treasures turn up in the oddest of places. Changes in ownership, mislabeling, shoddy record-keeping, or secret hoarding have all attributed to misplaced historical artifacts–and even to some that were never known by modern-day researchers.
Here are three of many misplaced historical artifacts that came dangerously close to a landfill:
Before the Declaration of Independence, There Was…
…a plea for reconciliation sent to Britain in 1775. While the final draft lives across the pond, a hand written draft was discovered at Morris-Jumel mansion—in the trash pile!
Over the decades of it being at the house museum, someone accidentally slipped it into a folder that was going to be tossed. An intern fortunately rediscovered the 12-page historical treasure.
The document was just a draft of the final reconciliation letter, penned by Robert R. Livingston, but the find of this misplaced historical artifact is incredibly astonishing!
historical artifacts of suffering – Christian Persecution in ancient rome
When Ancient Rome went after the Christian faith, it was pretty well documented by contemporary and ancient historians. But something pretty unusual was discovered at Luther College after a professor passed away. While emptying the professor’s office, many old papers and belongings were being sorted, and most thrown out. But when a student went into the storage room, she found a cardboard box that contained 9 papyrus documents dating from between the first and fifth centuries. One in particular, referred to as a Libellus, recounted the very first Christian Persecution under Emperor Decius.
It’s thought the professor picked the papyrus up while working in Egypt in the 1920s, and his discovery had never been documented.
Long Lost Painting
Robert Bereny was a big name in art. An important part of the movement that introduced Cubism and Expressionism to Hungary, Bereny’s famous painting, “Sleeping Lady with Black Vase”, simply disappeared in the 1920s. It just got up and was never seen again!
That is until 2009, when art historian Gergely Barki spotted it in the weirdest of places: the 1999 movie Stuart Little.
Turns out the masterpiece artifact had been lost when war reached Hungary, and since then had been passed back and forth through unknowing hands. It landed in an antique shop in America. A studio assistant picked it up for the film, and rather than let it sit in a storage room, she hung it in her apartment. And that is where Barki found it in 2009.
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3 Historical Artifacts That Almost Landed in the Trash
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