Posted on 02/15/2016 6:24:28 PM PST by jy8z
I saw this question posed by a fellow FReeper in answer to another Freeper today. I thought it would make for an interesting topic. I do not remember who it was so I can't attribute it to them.
I doubt it says IN GOD WE TRUST either. :^)
My Paternal Grandmother who was born in the 1800s had a pie safe.
I remember Mother one time mentioning that Daddy’s Mother had two things she wish that she had. One was a butter churn and the other was that pie safe.
After my Grandparents died, Mother did get the pie safe and used it for years. I don’t know who got the churn. I guess one of my Sisters has the pie safe now.
Rocking chairs are cool things to own. I have mine and the teddy bear that was sitting in it for my birthday in 1943. Survived daily use by my children and my two grandsons and still looks new. The bear lost his eyes and tongue long ago. Keep thinking I’ll have a great grandchild to pass things on to but no one yet!
Also have a picture of my adopted mom which was taken in 1917 and the original frame. And we have the English and math book that my mil used in 1923. Those that have looked at them can’t believe how challenging the math was back then.
"Where did the gold in your jewelry originate?
No one is completely sure. The relative average abundance in our Solar System appears higher than can be made in the early universe, in stars, and even in typical supernova explosions.
Some astronomers have recently suggested that neutron-rich heavy elements such as gold might be most easily made in rare neutron-rich explosions such as the collision of neutron stars. Since neutron star collisions are also suggested as the origin of short duration gamma-ray bursts, it is possible that you already own a souvenir from one of the most powerful explosions in the universe."
Though it couldn’t have come from the Sun. It’s never burned so hot as to fuse Ni/Fe. My guess is that the Sun and solar system began to form in the general neighborhood of that earlier supernova, quite quickly - relatively - after it took place...say 500,000 years? The ~4.5 billion year origin of our system gives about a billion years or so for that debris to have melded into other lanes of the galaxy.
Good gun. There was one in our family until that boating accident...
Not sure what that has to do with iron in meteorites, but that's pretty cool! Unless of course the safe is made of iron. :)
There is obviously some major importance to it.
It is a great conductor of electrons but I’ll be damned if the Egyptians knew this.
Gold is Gold. Thanks for the link.
I might be able top top my own record but the oldest thing that I can think of is a minie ball that I found in the dirt. It was fired during the Battle of Ox Hill in 1862 from the Union line, hit someone on the Confederate line and didn’t penetrate, fell to the ground and got stepped on. (My co-worker and I did some good homework and drew some reasonable conclusions from the evidence as we found it).
I have a piece of railroad from northern Saudi Arabian railways that once carried Pasha Lawrence and his troops in their war against Turkey. Believe it dates back to about 1915.
Finding Civil War relics is very hard.
I will share that finding old SW relics can be done in washes in the Sonoran desert.
What in the world is a “Piece of Railroad”?
Smith & Wesson No 1 1/2 in 22 Short, made approx 1868.
Actually, the oldest thing I own is a soap stone clothes iron used to press the collars of the Declaration plotters. The family thought so little of it that one of my uncles used it for an anchor on a trot-line in the Potomac River as a kid.
I have a revolutionary war era (approx. 1780) six legged lion paw sofa. G. Washington could have sat on this couch but of course I have no way of knowing that. (It’s for sale BTW).
1890 or so Federal chest. Used to be a picker and antique dealer. The chest is nice, but the 1820 or so for poster is awesome!
I have a Hamilton Railroad Special pocket watch and its Neutrons date back to the Lepton epoch.
Um, I believe the Egyptians DID know about electrical properties of metals. They had batteries ... and there are wall imagery that suggest they know how to make a light bulb work, albeit a large and primitive example compared to Edison’s stuff.
A bracelet with 1800’s coins hanging from it, weird, must have been a fashion statement back then.
So much stuff from three decades, wish I knew someone that wanted all the stuff from three generations.
Ummm....Do you believe the Egyptians coveted gold for its conductive properties?
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