“Everyone hopes to find treasure someday, and we actually did,” said attorney David Whitcomb. The New York state lawyer purchased what was to be his law office in Geneva in December 2020, but never expected to find a trove of historical treasures inside a hidden attic. Whitcomb planned on setting up office space on the first two floors. The third floor was to be an apartment, though it had to be completely renovated. He and a friend noticed a broken portion of the ceiling on the third floor, when they came across what looked to be floorboards above. None of the paperwork said anything about an attic. “None of the prior owners realized there was an attic. When I purchased the building there was no mention of it,” David told The Epoch Times. “We expected to find rafters to the ceiling but instead we found what looked like the bottom of …
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