I did this once with details from a handbag which was dumped just inside my garden wall. The person I phoned contacted the person whose bag it was and gave her my number. When she came round she was (I suppose) grateful but asked whether there had been a gold chain - recently bought - in the bag when I found it ... err ... maybe she was just shocked and confused generally but still. The bag had been taken, it seemed, by somebody who had been to her office and she hadn't even noticed until phoned by the intermediary. Just sayin' and of course no reason not to pursue any such future event. I couldn't help thinking though that a Thank You card through the door would have been nice. The (solicitor's) office was literally at the end of my road.
Anne England ● 2983d