Finding something you have spent years searching for.

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Have you ever found an item etc etc that, after years searching for, you eventually come across?

For me, it has been a book!

Me and my twin brother used to use this one particular book, as kids, to draw from. We both loved it. It was full of colourful, historical illustrations.

Well, my brother died, tragically 35 years ago.

I lost 'the' book. Nobody knew where it had gone.

Sadly, i didnt know the name of the book! Nor the author. Nor the publisher!!

All i knew was what it looked like and what it contained.

So, i have been searching for it for well over 30 years. Ebay, 2nd hand book shops etc etc....nothing.

Well, last sunday i went on ebay yet again to search and a book caught my eye. It looked the same. Same cover (No title on cover just an embossed figure i remembered), familiar illustrations inside so, i ordered it.

It arrived today.

I was over the moon! I had found that long lost book at last! Amazing. It is such a sentimental book to me. I was massively pleased.

It was a 1950 illustrated history book.

Anyone ever find something they had been years looking for?
 
Chicken Bovril.

Also, I had an illustrated book as a child, a fantasy one with looks of very intricate drawing and puzzles. I couldn't remember what it was called for the life of me, so just posted on the /tg/ board of 4chan that I was looking for a book with drawings of dragons and some riddles. I posted a picture which looked like something from my memory.

About 20 mins later someone came up with the correct title of the book [The Tasks of Tantalon]. The internet really can be an amazing place.
 
@koolpc - I have a similar story to you, except it was a Christmas compilation tape that I was given in 1986, aged 8!

The tape was long gone, so I thought. I did remember though that 3 of the songs were Walking in the Air (from The Snowman), I Wish it could be Christmas Every Day (by Wizzard) and the original Band Aid song. There was another song I remembered but I forgot what it was, and it was the track that I liked the most on that tape.

Cue the year 2022, and my parents found the tape in their loft and gave it back to me. I still have a tape player but the tape was stuck and I wasn't able to force the reels by attempting to turn the teeth using a knife. So the tape was unplayable. The track listing was still intact though, so I typed each one into Spotify (the tracks I didn't know), and it turns out the track I was after was "In Dulci Jubilo" by Mike Oldfield! Obviously he's famous for Tubular Bells and Moonlight Shadow. Just never realised he wrote Christmas music too.

So mystery solved, and it was fresh to find a Christmas compilation that didn't have Mariah Carey on it!!
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
@koolpc - I have a similar story to you, except it was a Christmas compilation tape that I was given in 1986, aged 8!

The tape was long gone, so I thought. I did remember though that 3 of the songs were Walking in the Air (from The Snowman), I Wish it could be Christmas Every Day (by Wizzard) and the original Band Aid song. There was another song I remembered but I forgot what it was, and it was the track that I liked the most on that tape.

Cue the year 2022, and my parents found the tape in their loft and gave it back to me. I still have a tape player but the tape was stuck and I wasn't able to force the reels by attempting to turn the teeth using a knife. So the tape was unplayable. The track listing was still intact though, so I typed each one into Spotify (the tracks I didn't know), and it turns out the track I was after was "In Dulci Jubilo" by Mike Oldfield! Obviously he's famous for Tubular Bells and Moonlight Shadow. Just never realised he wrote Christmas music too.

So mystery solved, and it was fresh to find a Christmas compilation that didn't have Mariah Carey on it!!
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Awesome!
 
koolpc said:
Have you ever found an item etc etc that, after years searching for, you eventually come across?

For me, it has been a book!

Me and my twin brother used to use this one particular book, as kids, to draw from. We both loved it. It was full of colourful, historical illustrations.

Well, my brother died, tragically 35 years ago.

I lost 'the' book. Nobody knew where it had gone.

Sadly, i didnt know the name of the book! Nor the author. Nor the publisher!!

All i knew was what it looked like and what it contained.

So, i have been searching for it for well over 30 years. Ebay, 2nd hand book shops etc etc....nothing.

Well, last sunday i went on ebay yet again to search and a book caught my eye. It looked the same. Same cover (No title on cover just an embossed figure i remembered), familiar illustrations inside so, i ordered it.

It arrived today.

I was over the moon! I had found that long lost book at last! Amazing. It is such a sentimental book to me. I was massively pleased.

It was a 1950 illustrated history book.

Anyone ever find something they had been years looking for?
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This was a nice story. What was the book?
 
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