# Lost wallet returned 39 years on

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**Created:** [February 2, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lost-wallet-returned-39-years-on/177546 "2006-02-02T21:18:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Seb\_Hughes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Seb\_Hughes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Seb_Hughes)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lost-wallet-returned-39-years-on/177546/1 "2006-02-02T21:18:15Z")

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Source: [BBC NEWS | Americas | Lost wallet returned 39 years on](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4674374.stm)

> [@BBC News](#):
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> A US man has praised the “good, honest” people of Utah after a wallet he left behind 39 years ago was returned to him in Pennsylvania.
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> Doug Schmitt, 57, left his wallet on the counter of a petrol station in Logan, Utah, in the spring of 1967.
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> The owner put the wallet in a drawer in the hope Mr Schmitt would come back to collect it.
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> Decades on, his son-in-law found it, tracked Mr Schmitt down on the internet and sent it to him.
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> Full head of hair
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> The wallet still contained $5 in cash and 8-cent airmail stamps. An equivalent stamp today costs 39 cents.
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> It held Mr Schmitt’s student identity card from Utah State University.
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> “I had a real full head of hair back then,” said Mr Schmitt.
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> He also found pictures of his high-school girlfriends and a dry-cleaning ticket in there.
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> “It makes me wonder if I still got some dry-cleaning out there,” he said. “I don’t know.”
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> Ted Nyman was clearing out his father-in-law’s estate when he came across the wallet and sent it 2,158 miles (3,472 km) across the US.
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> Wonderful
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> Mr Schmitt, an antiques dealer, said he was used to looking through people’s old relics and letters, but was surprised to find himself looking at his own history.
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> “I never thought I would be the object of something like this - not at this age, anyway,” he said.
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> “It’s wonderful that people will take the time to research that, then return something to someone they don’t even know,” his wife, Vickie, added.
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> “It’s great to see how he looked when he was a freshman in college.”

You think he would have given up on getting his wallet back :lol: