My great grandma's cast iron pan came with an old receipt from 1957 tucked inside the seasoning

I was cleaning out my great grandma's old cast iron skillet last weekend, the one she used for 30 years, and a folded up grocery receipt fell out from under the handle. The date on it was March 12, 1957 from a store called Miller's Grocery in downtown Omaha. A dozen eggs cost 48 cents back then, and a whole chicken was like a dollar and a half. It kinda hit me how much life that pan must have seen, just sitting there in her kitchen through all those years. Has anyone else found unexpected stuff hidden in family heirlooms?

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the_hugo23d ago

Bet that receipt is worth more than the pan now.

emery_hall23d agoTop Commenter

My buddy Tyler found a vintage cast iron skillet at a thrift store for 8 bucks. It was all crusted over and gross, but he cleaned it up and it was a 1940s Griswold. He took a pic and posted it in a collectors group online. This guy messaged him saying his grandpa had the same pan and lost the receipt for it in a fire. Tyler sold him the pan for like 300 bucks plus a box of old fishing lures. That receipt thing is real, people get crazy over the paper trail.