''For other uses of the term "Lost and Found", please see Lost and Found (disambiguation).

A lost and found (American English) or lost property (British English), usually found at large public places, is where visitors can go to retrieve lost articles that may have been found by other visitors. Frequently found at museums, amusement parks, schools, etc., a lost and found will typically be a box or room in a location near the main entrance. It would be clearly marked so that anyone who has found a misplaced article, or misplaced an article themselves, can find it.

Lost and found offices at large organizations can handle an improbably large and varied collection of articles. Transport for London's lost property offices (which handle items lost on the city's Tube, buses and taxis) handles over 130,000 items a year, including 24,000 bags and 10,000 mobile phones; among the more peculiar items that have been handed in include a wedding dress, ashes in an urn, a longcase clock and a kitchen sink.

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