I found a old key... what do i do with it?help plz?

its not an old enuf key to look like a sleleton key you see the first page on google.i cant upload a picture of it right now, it wont work at the moment. im not a key expert , i dont think its that old to be rare, nor its that new or recently lost to be returned to its owner. i found it just today ,in my front garden in the dirt about 2 ft in the ground when i was helping with the garden , replanting and stuff. i could tell its old because the design , well it really seems like an old fashion house key, or to somethng else. its marked like all other keys with MA 231.

and also it has a small tag attached to it saying 3815 carved in. its almost all rusty except for small spots of yellow in which i cleaned off the dirt with water, rinsing it.anyways what would it be doing in front of my house, it doesnt connect with my house i dont find yet. i cant explain it!its doesnt have curvy teeth, square teeth and its flat. im sure its isnt that old.

I found a old key... what do i do with it?help plz?
You go around to cute girls and say "I found this key, could it be the key to your heart? "
Reply:maybe the numbers 3815 is the adress of the persons key

maybe that the owners age..........Creeeeepy

what year was the house built and what state and city is your house in i'll try to do some reasearch on it what street maybe i can check for missing keys in your area what zipcode hope this helps please post information i kinda like mystery stories they give me chills.but they r fun



wait give me your email we could send informatin to each other my emai is elisa_71098@yahoo.com thax for the story
Reply:I know the type of key you're talking about. I've seen them in the past. Was there maybe a garden shed out there with a padlock on it? Usually the square teeth is an indicator it came with a less expensive lock. Square teeth were easier and faster to produce back in the - say 1950s. But as long as there have been keys, people have been losing them.



I know how you feel though. It's like finding a nickel from 1958, or something. You know it's not worth anything, but you still hate to let it go. There might be an interesting story behind that key. Unfortunately, we'll never know what it is.



I have a metal detector and was going through the site of a logging camp in Minnesota. Camp existed from 1898 to 1905. Found lots of stuff, including a skeleton key about 5.5 inches long. Again, probably an interesting story, or maybe was just used to lock the food storage at night. I'll never know.



Also, the small spots of yellow might be the remnants of electo-plating. A process that wasn't used until the late 1960s. But I don't know if there were still square teeth at that time, except for the cheapest of very small locks, like on a girl's diary. And your key seems too large for that.