What an awesome find! Makes me want to buy an old house just to renovate it and perhaps find few old magazines. They say old stuff that is in good condition is ten times more valuable than it's original prize, but I don't know, few magazines for about 50.000 to 150.000 euros (prize of an old house) sounds like a lot. 😀

Reminds me of an old rintamamiestalo that was on the market in Pirkkala near nuolialantie a while ago. The sale add looked like the owner of the house had written it. It said, with all caps of course: "ONKO TÄMÄ NYT RETROA VAI VINTAGEA" Is this retro or vintage, meaning the whole house. It was all dark green outside and I guess mostly inside too, and dark brown of course and it looked like... shit. Firstly, it was definitely vintage because I hear retro is something new that imitates old style when vintage is the actual old stuff made back then. So I guess it was vintage. Or would be in good condition because there also should be some understanding to the fact that at some point old stuff is not antique or vintage, it's just shit.

Anyway, this kind of findings are so rare nowadays when exploring old abandoned buildings because of those who like to destroy and burn stuff. And because of water going everywhere. So do not dare to throw these away!

This reminds me of a visit to an old house many years ago with my sister. I was about 10 years old then. We found old newspapers (from 1930's to 40's before and during the war) from an abandoned not finished loghouse and spent a good while reading those papers.

If I remember correctly, the house belonged to a man who had at least one brother and his father was a single father. The house owner died in the Winter War. And his brother(s) died in the Winter War or the Continuation War. So eventually the father was alone and he never had any will to finish the house and he didn't want to sell it. When the father died his siblings and their children inherited the unfinished house and they couldn't agree what to do with it. So the house was at the same state when I was there as it was when the owner and his brother(s) died.

So sad story but old stuff just becomes so much more valuable when you know the stories and the history behind it.