113-Year-Old Time Capsule Found Inside Old State House Statue

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113 Year-Old Time Capsule Found:

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Both the landmark’s lion and unicorn statues were removed Sunday and sent to Woburn’s Skylight Studios on Monday for inspection by conservator Robert Shure, who detected a copper box about the size of a shoebox inside the lion’s head.


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“We didn’t anticipate there would be such reaction to this project,” Brian LeMay, Executive Director and President of the Bostonian Society, told Boston.com. “But it is kind of a hoot that something like this has been hiding in plain sight for a hundred and some odd years.”


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The copper "time capsule" was been soldered shut.

Very interesting.
The lion and the unicorn statues.